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by psychoslave 621 days ago
Laws come and go.

Forcing hardware vendor to disclose all information necessary to build drivers is something that is perfectly plausible to enact for example in the frame of a right to repair/maintain the hardware customers buy.

Note that it doesn’t need to be forcing to open source the vendor own implementation of any driver.

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Yes, this is very plausible considering laws are in the making that forbid bricking of a device by stopping software support or remotely disabling it etc. Seems the only way to fix that is providing enough info to maintain yourself.