but that's just because manufacturers desperately hide the fact that their own firmaware is based on OSS, and that there are alternate stacks available. imagin

but that's just because manufacturers desperately hide the fact that their own firmaware is based on OSS, and that there are alternate stacks available. imagine instead that vendors had to acknowlege the structure of their firmware, and make the (usually obvious) hardware interface documented from sale. that would automatically solve the issue of out-of-support(-by-vendor) hw.