I *just* figured out

I *just* figured out

One of the reasons they're *really* doing this:

Sputnik.

http://sputnik.com/products/agent/linksys.html

I'll bet they have a deal with the Sputnik people that was one of the factors in keeping that model of hardware available. (Though, amusingly, the Sputnik page doesn't say anything about it...)