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Distributing the documentation of your API is not making your device open source, what the fuck kind of tech journalism is that
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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Yeah the headline definitely does not match the content of the article.
This will make it easier for people to build apps that interface with the speaker without signing any agreement with Bose, but it doesn't make it any easier for the community to patch or update/maintain the speaker firmware itself, which is what may eventually result in the speakers being landfilled despite having good hardware.
PDF is open-source, LLM black box is open-source, everything is open-source. Those companies must really want to destroy the meaning of open-source.