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 <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
