So here's my dumb little fantasy law, I'd love for anyone to tell me if this is stupid.
1. In the event of a bankruptcy proceeding, all source code for a hardware product shall be open-sourced.
2. In the event of a hardware product that is dependent upon cloud services being discontinued, instructions for "rooting" the product, and the firmware source code shall be open-sourced.
3. Companies that acquire the rights to patents of bankrupt companies and discontinued products must keep the cloud servers going or open-source blah blah.
The only serious counter argument I can think of here is the tangle of patents, to which I retort, the price of keeping the patents is keeping the furnaces powering the cloud servers running.
1. In the event of a bankruptcy proceeding, all source code for a hardware product shall be open-sourced.
2. In the event of a hardware product that is dependent upon cloud services being discontinued, instructions for "rooting" the product, and the firmware source code shall be open-sourced.
3. Companies that acquire the rights to patents of bankrupt companies and discontinued products must keep the cloud servers going or open-source blah blah.
The only serious counter argument I can think of here is the tangle of patents, to which I retort, the price of keeping the patents is keeping the furnaces powering the cloud servers running.
Am I crazy here?