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.

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

And therefore nobody would be allowed to?

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.