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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Be nice if companies had to open source firmware they are going to EoL.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Be nice?

It must become.law. we want to lower e-waste? Yen if companies stop supporting their products, het must open source all of it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, be nice if the US didn't turn into a dictatorship in a few months. Don't see any company-unfriendly laws going in effect there any time soon. But perhaps in Europe there's still some chance of this happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Hopefully, but it's easier to tell each company what they should do instead of giving them rules that they try to workaround. There are many examples.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not going to hold my breath that anything like this will happen in the current political climate, but yeah, that should be mandatory. Even ignoring the exploitive nature towards their customers, it creates a ton of unnecessary waste.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Exactly. As a consumer, when I buy a product, I'm not just buying the state of things at the time, I'm buying with an expectation of ongoing support. If they choose to not support it themselves, I should be able to support it myself.

In the old days, hardware came with schematics, so when the manufacturer warranty ended, customers could repair things themselves. That should extend to software as well, since software is just as much a part of the functioning of a device as capacitors and whatnot.