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Linux being opensource helped people alot who werent engineers. Its for the benefit of opensource devs who can make software for normal people to use

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embedding-shape 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, fuck hacking right? Who could possibly do that anyways?

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trelane 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who would ever flash alternate firmware on their wifi routers?! Or do it for someone else, like family members?

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function_seven 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. Like with Tuya devices (tasmota) or the WRT-54G two decades ago.

Only takes one person to create the new firmware. Everyone else can follow whatever steps are needed to use it.

	▲	worldsavior 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Who is everyone? Are you talking about people with familiarity with tech and hacking? Most people don't know how to write a URL in the browser.

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t_mahmood 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who's losing here?

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swiftcoder 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Eh, even if it just means that someone can offer a 3rd-party smartphone app to control them, it's a pretty big win versus the normal end-of-life support story

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idiotsecant 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not even sure what you're complaining about here.

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worldsavior 2 days ago | parent [-]

Everyone here thinks that everyone="all hacking-experienced people", where I mean everyone is the whole world. MOST people are not going to hack their device.

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theglenn88_ 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

How would you like Bose to solve this issue, If open sourcing the firmware doesn't make cut it?

	▲	worldsavior 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Functionality should work offline also.

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amarant 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And therefore nobody would be allowed to?

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thfuran 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t care if most people aren’t going to do that. The company flat out shouldn’t be permitted to brick a device they already sold you, and this is a viable alternative.

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BoredPositron 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

People with hot takes that didn't even bother to read the article.