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by bluejekyll 2351 days ago
Ok. But prior art should blast this out of the water, at least IMO. In 2000 I had friends in college running Linux for streaming music to speakers. I was impressed at the time because this wasn’t someone in the CS department.

So if anything I feel like it could be argued that they didn’t invent anything new, only packaged it into a new form factor.

Sonos formed in 2002, first demos were 2004, according to the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonos