On: Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra

[dannyw]

Ingredients listing don't tell everything about how it is made, etc.

A closer analogy might be detailed API specs.

[londons_explore → dannyw]

Hardware schematics and full source code doesn't tell you everything about how a piece of hardware is made either.

How was the hardware tested? How was it calibrated? How was it assembled?

An ingredients list tells 90% of the story about how food is made, and in most cases an expert could guess the remaining 10% to get a decent result. Likewise, hardware design+code tells 90% and an expert could figure out the remaining 10%.

The government could totally require all consumer products have published source code. (published source code != a license for others to use the code)

[immibis → dannyw]

For electronics it would probably show the part number and position of each component on the PCB, without showing how they are connected.

[brokenmachine → immibis]

Even just knowing all the components would be a step in the right direction.