[$] The Sound Open Firmware project launches

It is an increasingly poorly kept secret that, underneath the hood ofthe components that most of us view as "hardware", there is a great deal ofproprietary software. This code, written by anonymous developers, rarelysees the light of day; as a result, it tends to have all of the pathologiesassociated with software that nobody can either review or fix. The 2018Embedded Linux Conference saw an announcement for a new project that, with luck, will change thatsituation, at least for one variety of hardware: audio devices.