Bose open-sources its SoundTouch smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

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ahlCVA

a day ago

Calling publishing API docs "open-sourcing" is a bit hyperbolic, but as token gestures go, it's at least worth a little bit.

I'm not familiar with those devices in particular, but I wish vendors would take steps to make life easier for after-markt firmware developers especially once devices go EOL by doing things like proactively dropping a GPL tarball and giving people a way to disable secure boot locks on devices that have them.

CodinM

a day ago

This is impressive, especially because in my mind Bose doesn't have the image of the corporation that cares at all about its perception - especially of its perception in such a small circle that would care about this, but I'm definitely going to bump them up on the list of things I'd buy in the future.