Obviously the two aren't the same (especially given the need to do routing), but I've always found it amusing that in the systems world, capability-based systems (i.e. making it impossible to address things you aren't allowed to access) are gaining traction while the philosophy in the networking world seems to be going in the opposite direction (make it possible to address everything, i.e. IPv6 vs. NATted IPv4, then add filtering).

Calling publishing API docs "open-sourcing" is a bit hyperbolic, but as token gestures go, it's at least worth a little bit.

I'm not familiar with those devices in particular, but I wish vendors would take steps to make life easier for after-markt firmware developers especially once devices go EOL by doing things like proactively dropping a GPL tarball and giving people a way to disable secure boot locks on devices that have them.