Comparison?

Ok, netgear is playing nicely now.  So why do I buy their hardware vs the Linksys WRT54GL?
The Linksys has a very long history built up by now and the specs and price of both are pretty
much equal.

Somebody wants me to jump to their camp there are some things they could do.  Populate the
serial port and JTAG with actual headers for a start.  Add the max3232 and a DB9 on the back
and I'm a really happy dude.  More flash/ram are of course big product features that open up
so many additional uses for a small router/computer.  Add an expansion header and make i2c,
SPI, etc access available.  Not asking for major additions of hardware, just making otherwise
unused features in the SoC easy to get at.

In general, taking an aging platform and making the source tree available for it is a good
start.  Going the extra mile to make it friendly to hacking would be great.