On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 11:45:18AM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > For a while Linksys was selling a version of the WRT54 that was specifically > for OpenWRT.
Well the WRT54G v5 cut the ram in half and put vxworks on it, which ruined performance and upset people so they made a WRT54GL with the original specs and linux again. > So at some point they were not anti-OpenSource. > Linksys did get acquired by Cisco around 2005 and Cisco is not OpenSource > friendly. Cisco sold it to Belkin in 2013 and Belkin was bought by Foxcon in 2018. > Always remember. "the key to job security is product obscurity." > Making support harder keeps people from making your products last longer. > If the products last longer then people will not buy the newer version as > quickly and your stock-options may suffer. Make it too crappy and not last long enough and people won't buy another product from you again. It needs a balance at least as long as you have any compatition. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
