On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Robert Rolf wrote:

>> I don't WANT to build one.

> Like the many hacks based on the Linksys WRT54G routers, which are
> essentially running a linux kernal.
>
Yes, exactly!  Although in that case I think only enough of the
official software is "open source" that people have been able
to replace it wholesale;  A sort of "we didn't really mean for
this to be open source but we got caught by the GPL.  Oops."
SW that was intended to be open source from the start would be
better.  The situation with Tivo is probably a better example.

Although - I think the official theory is that all other WRT54G
software is a "support nightmare."  (note "theory" - I'm not sure
that this is true.)  Newer versions of the box labeled WRT54G
have different HW, the official software is no longer linux based,
and the third-party images don't run.  For which we were duly dinged
by the open source community.  (though I can see both sides of THAT.)

BillW
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