Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 19, 2005 10:52 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)
In reply to: Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge) by ncm
Parent article: Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

I don't know anything about the relative functionalities but I think that the reported highly dubious business practices of Sveasoft mean that you really shouldn't buy their stuff, or at least should have a good read of the net first. They have taken an interesting business approach of charging a subscription to GPLed code which is technically legal, but seems to me be to against the spirit of Free Software. That is perhaps fair enough, but their other reported actions are clearly out of order. The accusation is that people who distribute the Sveasoft code under their GPL rights are accused of stealing, threatened, and sometimes have their ISP approached to get their access removed. I don't think a company that behaves like that should get any business from anyone.

'The individual's side of the story is here: http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/

There is also a very interesting discussion in the 'sveasoft' wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sveasoft

It's difficult to decide what the real truth is here, but the net effect is that I'm certainly not using Sveasoft's software on my WRTG54, and am sufficiently unimpressed to feel that I ought to bring the controversy to the attention of others who might be considering it.

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