This is cool and reminds me that when I bother to think about it I'm continually surprised no major camera maker has released a camera with an open source firmw

This is cool and reminds me that when I bother to think about it I'm continually surprised no major camera maker has released a camera with an open source firmware. Granted, I don't think end-users care about the openness of their cameras, but it only takes a small core of developers who do care to donate a lot of time and vastly increase the value of your device. As an example, if you hang out on forums for Canon cameras you will find a lot of people who factor whether Magic Lantern (and open source hack on top of closed source Canon firmware) will run on the new model or not. I particularly wish Sony (who is killing it with their sensor designs lately) would jump on this.