Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

Posted Apr 13, 2016 7:23 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation? by Cyberax
Parent article: Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

> Do you think nobody would have written a minimalistic Linux distro for routers without WRT?

The only reason we have support for the majority of routers in *any* distribution is because the vendors released their source code, frequently as a result of either past enforcement actions or the threat of future ones. Just as in the phone market, router vendors have demonstrated that they have no interest in releasing their source code unless compelled to.