Comment by tw04
2 days ago
> Bose should not receive praise for this move.
Remind me of any other vendor in recent history that end of lifed a hardware product and then open sourced it whether they got backlash or not. Because I can’t think of a single one.
So yes, Bose absolutely deserves praise.
Google refunded all Stadia purchases, both hardware and software, after they discontinued the platform/product. Then they added functionality (the ability to operate the controller as a generic Bluetooth controller) afterward to keep the hardware from becoming e-waste.
Cheaper than the class action which would've followed given Stadia's relatively short life.
Short by anything but Google standards :P
Logitech are my go-to example of a company that does the right thing and deserves recognition for it. They kept their squeezebox.com servers going for a decade after they discontinued their Squeezebox hardware audio players. At the same time, they funded a maintainer to keep improving the open source server software that users can self-host on multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, Raspberry Pi). Two years ago, they finally shut down the squeezebox.com servers that they were running but the server software is still being actively maintained: https://lyrion.org/
I recall there is also an open source and hardware speaker but not 100% sure it's from Logitech.
Teufel Mynd is the open source speaker https://blog.teufelaudio.com/visionary-mynds-insights-on-teu...
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Arguably HP open-sourced webOS, but they did also got backlash because they killed that entire product line without warning.
They killed the product line almost immediately after release. And they fired basically everyone they acquired from palm.
It was a real shitty move.
It is a pretty sad story, and one that has been rather well told:
https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insi...
https://www.philmckinney.com/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-pa...
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Except the title is wrong; Bose didn't open source anything.
Pebble?