News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by Almondsetat on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:48AM (#46542382)
Firstly, the source code is probably being used on newer devices, so Bose would not like sharing their proprietary solutions which might contain thirds party code they cannot share.

Secondly, these devices are basically one step above embedded. It's highly unlikely you can load and run anything custom on them.

Since they are opening up the API, you can keep using them for what they were made for, which is at least a solid basic liberty

There are no comments on this comment yet.