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Hardware drivers is a big problem in the mobile market. Reverse engineering drivers for every possible piece of hardware is too much work. We really need hardware manufacturers to want to open source their drivers so that open source OSes can work on a broad range of hardware.
We don't need to want them to. They will need to be forced into it.
I'm just about ready to put my pitchfork somewhere it shouldn't be
IMO, when you are talking about corporation, them wanting to do something and them being forced to do something are basically the same thing. They only respond to financial incentives. If there is financial incentive for doing something, then they will "want to" start doing that thing. If there is financial pressure to not do a thing, then they will "want to" not do that thing (assuming only that the financial pressure outweighs the financial gains of not doing the thing).
(Which most don't want, because they make money by selling your data)