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They don't need to do that to sell their hardware so why would they do that? On the other hand, they have strong incentives to not give you that level of access
by surajrmal 9d ago
They don't need to do that to sell their hardware so why would they do that? On the other hand, they have strong incentives to not give you that level of access and information. The only way this will change is by having some disruption by way of a competitor who sells hardware with that feature as being a major reason why it takes off.
- loup-vaillant 9d agoOr we could regulate. One hammer I'm tempted to use is to simply forbid sales and importation of hardware made by companies that also distribute software. That way the only way to sell you hardware is to make sure its interfaces are both simple and thoroughly documented. We could possibly make an exception for open source software, or only forbid the distribution of the relevant drivers, or limit the applicability of that law to specific hardware: hard drives, mice, printers, web cams... or GPUs. Anyway, that should be disruption enough.