Make sure you open a support ticket asking for LVFS updates -- it's easy to ignore one person, but much harder to ignore hundreds of people asking for the same thing.
With most things I just complain a bit and then go on with my life, but this actually feels like it could work. Samsung does already release some sort of broken Linux livecd for fw updates, seems like LVFS would be easier for everyone.
Samsung actually upload firmware to the LVFS on behalf of a few different OEMs, so they certainly know how. It's a policy decision, not a technical or legal one.
With most things I just complain a bit and then go on with my life, but this actually feels like it could work. Samsung does already release some sort of broken Linux livecd for fw updates, seems like LVFS would be easier for everyone.