The Default Router (Tedium)

[Posted January 13, 2021 by corbet]

Tedium is running a history of the Linksys WRT54G router. "But the reason the WRT54G series has held on for so long, despite using a wireless protocol that was effectively made obsolete 12 years ago, might come down to a feature that was initially undocumented—a feature that got through amid all the complications of a big merger. Intentionally or not, the WRT54G was hiding something fundamental on the router’s firmware: Software based on Linux."

Thanks, GPL!

Posted Jan 15, 2021 11:26 UTC (Fri) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link] (1 responses)

This is one nice example where GPL just as the doctor ordered.

Without, OpenWRT wouldn't be.

Thanks, GPL!

Posted Jan 18, 2021 13:29 UTC (Mon) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link]

And it probably helped sales, I specifically bought one of those back in the day since it ran OpenWRT and it's often something I look for in a router.