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Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by LetsGetTechnicl on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:14PM (#46543569)
It was reverse engineered, not opened by IBM
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Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by aeyes on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:30PM (#46543782)
No, they published schematics and full BIOS source code.

But it was not libre, they held the copyright to the source code. So to get around this, competing companies wrote a spec from the source code and then had another team which never saw the code implement a new BIOS from the spec.

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Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by cromka on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:11PM (#46548382)
That's exactly what blackbox reverse engineering is.
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