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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by cassianoleal on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:19PM (#37728796)
Yeah, someone on that Reddit thread said it right - force the companies to publish documentation for the interfaces. Let the hackers write the drivers without painful, slow and error-prone reverse engineering.
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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by TheRealPomax on Sunday October 01, 2023 @07:01PM (#37731864)
I wouldn't even go that far: by all means, don't publish your interfaces, but if someone reverse engineers them: legalize that. And don't offer tax cuts to companies that don't publish their schematics and interfaces.
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