S Woodside writes:
 > Forget about the upset about the GPL for the moment ... this could be 
 > totally awesome! If we could have our own firmware on a linksys unit, 
 > we could do all kinds of great stuff for cheap without needing to have 
 > an actual PC that is hard to fit inside a weatherproof box on the top 
 > of the mast...

Indeed.  From what I understand from reading the LKML, embedded in the
firmware that you can download is a cramfs image.  As long as they
don't do something silly like have the bootloader only run signed
software, then we could just make a new set of files, make a cramfs
out of them, and reflash.

Makes me want to go buy more Linksys hardware in *spite* of my
experience with it.  :-)

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