> I support jail time for cases like this, but with mandatory physical consequences (like a daily beating with a stick). I hear you, but I think corporate diss

> I support jail time for cases like this, but with mandatory physical consequences (like a daily beating with a stick). I hear you, but I think corporate dissolution is the one case where no one can really expect a device to remain supported, so punishing that will do no good. Punishment only makes sense when you have an ongoing viable business that drops support for no good reason (like the Spotify Car thing). IMHO, for dissolution, it makes more sense to require open-sourcing all device and server code if there's no entity willing to take on support. For an ongoing business, there should be some onerous punishment if they decide brick a connected device too early (e.g before 5 or 7 years after the last version sold), and if they decide brick it later they need to open source the related code.