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As soon as warranty/support expires, the device must be free for DRM/reverse-engineering. This will incentivize manufacturers to offer longer support.

Edit: Rather they should actually provide the spec, drivers etc

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As support expires or EOL the manufacturer should be forced to release their firmware code to ensure older devices can be patched, if they want to keep operating and selling new devices. this requires legislation though.

There are a lot of routers using GPL code that have open source firmware available (ddwrt,openwrt,tomato,etc.) I think once support for a device ends it should be mandated that the company release the source code for future development.

There is a worrying increase in the amount of IoT devices that will remain forever unpatched due to the (cheap overseas) manufacturers never updating them or ending support for them.

Make that one year before ending support, so there is both time to prepare and incentive to open source early.

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