From "happy hacking" to "screw you" - the story of Meraki (virishi.net)

From virishi.net comes a tale of woe in trying to use Meraki hardware to provide internet to part of Vancouver, British Columbia. It seems that this MIT Roofnet project commercial spin-off keeps changing its pricing models and licensing on the free software-based devices. "Then in February Meraki announced a change to their EULA (End User Licence Agreement) which precluded anyone from changing any of the software that they install on their units. This meant that from that point forward we would be breaking their rules, and maybe the law, by installing our own work on their hardware. Of course this could not be applied retroactively so we were free to continue to work with the hardware that we'd already bought but we intensified our search for alternatives to the Meraki hardware." (Seen on Slashdot).

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