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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 6 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how you'd enforce that though. Sure, for companies that just discontinue a line of products you could force them to open up their code. But what about companies that go under and just fold? Unless someone takes the time to open it up as the company goes under, there is no forcing function that I could think of?

Maybe an escrow of sorts but that seems like a hackers wet dream for proprietary software.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 4 points 6 months ago

If a law is passed, part of the bankruptcy process is releasing the code or selling off that division to another company.