Somebody has to pay for the support. There is no free meal.

Enterprise must be able to pay for support for as long as they use devices. Solved.

I can only think of requiring the devices to be serviceable, as you say. The absolute only way I can think of charging the consumers, ie the owners, is to charge a tax on internet connections. Then the government would pay somehow vulnerability hunters working along patchers, who can oversee each other.

Consumers are tricky: if you include support in the sale price, the company will grab the money and run in 3 or 5 years; and some companies will sell cheaper because they know they won't provide support.

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AnthonyMouse 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> Somebody has to pay for the support. There is no free meal.

The problem is not that people need a free meal. The problem is that people need the ability to eat some other food when the OEM's restaurant is closed or unsatisfactory.

	▲	nobodyandproud 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Who creates and regularly keeps the firmware for the dozens and dozens of router models secure and up-to-date? Who ensures the maintainers for these routers are incentivized to do this competently and in a timely fashion? You haven’t answered these key questions, which are equally or more important than whether a community firmware can be applied.
	▲	catlikesshrimp 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, OEM would make the device upgradeable, government will pay independent bounty hunters and patchers and will push the updates. Then consumers pay for all that.