[RndTbl] WRT54G Wireless Router firmware

Shawn Wallbridge shawn at synack-hosting.com
Wed May 11 09:27:43 CDT 2005


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:
>
> http://www.sveasoft.com/

And they are breaking the GPL by refusing to release the source and 
actively going after people (including Google) that share the firmware. 
They have also implemented a mechanism that locks a specific download 
of the firmware to a specific router (by MAC and serial number).

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

I personally wouldn't send them my money

shawn



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