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Originally Posted by ali
I love that hint, I forgot about the GPL (god bless it!). Looks like a bright future for us!
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i think Linksys has more good then bad gotten from that. Think how many routers are running now on OpenWrt, DD-Wrt or some other alternative firmware. I'm in no doubt that all vendors of Broadcom-based routers made a good amount of additional sales because of the availability of the alternative firmwares.
Downside is naturally, that the users don't need to buy new hardware, as long as the firmware project of their choice is alive.
Personally, i would rather want my Iliad (if i order one) open, in the form of root access for me, then having the ability to read DRM'ed books. That would be a good reason to start learning real programming.
i'm so going off topic here.