[ale] WRT54G Firmware

[James Sumners]

They don't have any obligation to do that. They are trying to sell
products to the average consumer not to the geeks who wants a cheap
embeded Linux box. Their only obligation is to provide the GPLed code
that they modified. I believe that if they really wanted to get nasty,
they could remove all the proprietary binaries from the GPL package
they provide and no one could do anything about it.

Personally, I don't understand why people even like the device. It is
severly lacking in ability when compared with a cheap "junk" computer
that can run a ready-made firewall like IPcop or your own set of
iptable and QoS rules. Were I the initiator of this thread I would
have put the thing up for sale the minute I realized the device won't
let me use my network the way I want to.

On 4/14/05, vf5 at plm.gatech.edu <vf5 at plm.gatech.edu> wrote:
> This V3 hardware change has really screwed over the WRT community badly.
> Major chipset changes, and none of them presaged or released to the community
> in advance or anything. It would have been great if Linksys had sent a few
> dozen units out to the projects, but no they have had to wait and buy their
> own units off the shelf like everyone else and try to port..


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