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[Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED



On 11/5/2015 9:36 AM, John Byrnes wrote:
> This is what I never understood -- why the heck do companies spend any
> money at all making lousy firmware when they could just simply load a
> stock OpenWRT at no cost and be done with it? If this is what everyone
> is doing anyway, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Because OpenWRT is GPL and the GPL would force them to publish any code 
changes they make or maybe face lawsuits from the FSF.

-- 
Rich P.



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