[tw04]

> 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.

[sjs382]

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.

[tjpnz]

Cheaper than the class action which would've followed given Stadia's relatively short life.

[shmoe]

Short by anything but Google standards :P

[Anthony-G]

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/

[seb1204]

I recall there is also an open source and hardware speaker but not 100% sure it's from Logitech.

[ROOFLES]

Teufel Mynd is the open source speaker https://blog.teufelaudio.com/visionary-mynds-insights-on-teu...

[lossyalgo]

That's nice of them! Too bad they don't offer repair for other speaker systems that are out of warranty, nor do they sell components for other repair shops to fix speakers that are out of warranty.

[ToniCipriani]

Arguably HP open-sourced webOS, but they did also got backlash because they killed that entire product line without warning.

[cogman10]

They killed the product line almost immediately after release. And they fired basically everyone they acquired from palm.

It was a real shitty move.

[w4der]

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...

[cogman10]

I worked at HP as an intern during the saga. I even got to attend a training by the Palm team... Which wasn't great.

My impression just from that training is that WebOs was extremely mismanaged. The training was billed as a "how to write apps for WebOs" and it instead was an hour long meander by the Palm employee about how different the company culture is and how hard it became to do anything.

I had the distinct impression they didn't even know that the training was supposed to be before being assigned to do it.

I think that's indicative of everything. HP had this product that they were trying to shoehorn into the most bizarre places. At it's core it was a mobile Linux os which used html/css/JavaScript as the main user experience engine. And HP was trying to put that on printers and rack mount displays. The one place they didn't seem to care putting it was the mobile devices it was designed to target. They simply half assed the launch of a product.

[monocasa]

Except the title is wrong; Bose didn't open source anything.

[astrange]

Pebble?