On 11-May-05, at 2:26 PM, Bill Reid wrote:
Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
On 11-May-05, at 9:18 AM, Bill Reid wrote:
Here is a company that is trying to make money at producing the firmware:
And they are breaking the GPL by refusing to release the source and
The source for the released version is available: http://www.wrt54g.com/
Yeah, but that is a MUCH older release.
They have also implemented a mechanism that locks a specific download of the firmware to a specific router (by MAC and serial number).
I have not seen this. I run the same binary on two routers.
They implemented it in the last release.
Here is a slashdot article (I can't find the other site I read about a bunch of this stuff)... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/21/2255239
A comment from the Slashdot article: "The thread summary at DSLReports only makes it clear that this is all very complicated." I agree it is not as open as other projects.
The $20/yr is for support and access to the pre-release version of the software. The debate is whether they have to release the source for the pre-release. Isn't this sort of like what sendmail and ghostscript are doing?
I have no problems supporting their effort.
I don't have a problem with them charging for the support or supporting them to develop it, it's the efforts they are putting into making sure people can't share and then going after people that do share (they ban people from the forums as soon as they share, they have contacted people's ISP's and claimed it violated the DMCA, etc, they even sent Google a cease and desist letter). I will try to find the site I saw earlier that documented the hell they put people through that tried to share.
shawn