Which is not a real issue in practice. It's like arguing that warranty doesn't matter because the vendor might go out of business.
Then if you're a five person shop making routers and you publish the firmware source under a license that allows anyone to make and distribute modifications you're all set. And if you're Apple or Microsoft and you want to make a router without publishing the source code, you post the enormous bond which you have no trouble doing because you're an enormous company and you're all set.
Are you serious? The number of IoT companies that make a product for a couple years and then go bust is enormous.
> It's like arguing that warranty doesn't matter because the vendor might go out of business.
How are you going to use a warranty from a company that no longer exists to get a security update for a product a million consumers still have?
> How are you going to use a warranty from a company that no longer exists to get a security update for a product a million consumers still have?
I was not talking about using warranty for this.
But then many consumers value cost or other things over security, which is why you need all the devices to be able to be updated even after the vendor is gone.
> I was not talking about using warranty for this.
Then why are you talking about a warranty to begin with?
