[superjan]

How about applying the idea behind ESCROW: if you market hardware with software dependencies, you are required to provide the source to a trusted third party who will release/opensource it if you stop maintaining said software before the expected lifetime of the hardware.

[genewitch]

Sounds great, how do you enforce this with the deluge of things like IP cameras and the like from Chinese companies?

100% tariffs? Every outdoor IP camera, for example, is either Chinese manufactured or outlandishly expensive. even a 200% increase in purchase price makes these devices competitive, still.

[vineyardmike]

You don’t force regulatory compliance with a tariff, you force regulatory compliance with import bans. Enforcement is a whole separate issue.

“If you doesn’t follow rule X, you can’t import the cheap IP camera into America”