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



A problem for the makers of high priced products. But if you are a
commodity router maker, your value is in price and reliability, not
software uniqueness. So why not open up?

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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