On 11/8/2015 9:15 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
market. In that market, "Linksys by Cisco" was (as far as I know) the bulk of their offerings and Linux was common on those devices. More
Linux was only on the WRT54G series. All other Linksys home routers ship with VxWorks. Actually, even the WRT54GL ships with VxWorks, now, and installing dd-wrt or OpenWrt or whatever voids the warranty.
As for Netgear, at least some of their ReadyNAS product line apparently use Linux and this web page of source code for firmware for various Netgear products shows many products using GPLed (usually? linux) software:
Again, these are exceptions. The vast majority of Netgear's consumer products have no GPL code in them.
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2649/~/netgear-open-source-code-for-programmers-%28gpl%29 Since neither one of us has defined "frequently" or "rare exception", I suppose we can both argue that we are right. I would willingly
Linksys (by Cisco) has had one consumer router series with Linux. Netgear has had one (that I'm aware of) consumer router with Linux. Linksys currently lists 23 home wireless routers and Netgear currently lists 30 home wireless routers on their respective web sites. I'd say two devices out of more than 50 a pretty definitive meaning of "rare exception".
Fine with this. Time to market/ability to use the cheapest chips as fast as possible for SOHO products is certainly a reason to not use OpenWRT. But I don't see that as having anything to do with OpenWRT being GPLed.
Lots of reasons that I've previously enumerated but here's another one: you can't turn a profit trying to sell GPL software.
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