I'm a old fan of Linksys and really believe this new device has a lot of
potential in the coming era of "AC" devices. The fact that Linksys now
belongs to Belkin I'm not sure yet if it's a good think or not, too soon
to say. We'll see and hope that is a step ahead in everybody's benefit,
vendor and users.
However if they are only trying to take advantage of the OpenWRT name
but not really contributing and engaging with the community they should
not get the expected result from anyone here.
I suspect there are people from Belkin/Linksys in this mail list and
already working on it, but I also believe they should be engaging with
us and being more clear with they intentions and plans when they
mention OpenWRT in their marketing material. Nobody expects they to show
any industrial secrets, but at least to work close to OpenWRT developers
and release all the relevant open source material.
Regards,
Fernando
On 15/01/2014 23:06, Peter Lawler wrote:
Oh, bad me for replying to myself... but from the press release page:
http://www.linksys.com/en-us/press/releases/2014-01-06_Linksys_wrt_revolutionizes_wireless_networking
"Linksys has also been working with the OpenWRT community to make an
open source firmware downloadable when product is available."
That sentence barely parses.
Making a firmware downloadable, but no source huh?
Working with the community but this thread suggests otherwise?
But hey, marketing.
P.
On 16/01/14 10:04, Peter Lawler wrote:
Just noticed the web page about it
http://www.linksys.com/en-us/wrt-wireless-router
Says: "open source ready"
Sounds to me like it'll be OpenWRT 'friendly', insofar as ease of
flashing and not hating on people who try it out, rather than shipping
with OpenWRT. Which (a) makes sense from a first iteration hardware PoV
(b) would tally with what some of the devs have said on this list about
not having heard a thing from them about it.
Pete.
On 16/01/14 07:16, James Hilliard wrote:
Maybe they took some of my suggestions when I sent GPL notices to them
http://sourceforge.net/projects/officiallinksysfirmware/files/ although
they still haven't complied with a number of the requests for certain
devices.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Chirag Chhatriwala
<[email protected]>wrote:
Hi,
we talked about this internally and are not aware of any developer
that
was pinged by linksys. what we know so far
* unit most likely runs on a ghz arm soc made by marvell
* unit is about 1,5x the size of the original
* the unit is really expensive - you can get a time capsule for that
price with a 2TB disc or even a low end qnap
lets see if they actually contact us or if it was a marketing hoax
John
Not sure how I missed this thread. However, if they do end up working
with
a few devs here on the OpenWrt team (fingers crossed), it would do
wonders
for Belkin/Linksys brand as well as for the Marvell SoCs which have
had
zero exposure to the open source community because of lack of
drivers. I
never understood why Linksys (under Cisco) didn't capitalize on the
OpenSource Market after the huge success of the WRT54GL series.
Linksys
(under Belkin) is appealing to its target end-users perfectly.
As an aside, this could potentially mean extended support for
pre-existing
Linksys EAxxxx routers which are based off the Marvell SoC (maybe?).
Hope this isn't too good to be true.
Unless there are some NDAs involved, it would be great to hear some
updates on this subject.
Best Regards,
Chirag
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