Agreed, but one small pedantic correction: the Linksys firmware was written by Chinese contractors. I know because I had to deal with them. It's also why the op

Agreed, but one small pedantic correction: the Linksys firmware was written by Chinese contractors. I know because I had to deal with them. It's also why the open source process took so long - the firmware was a binary blob and the contractors refused to cough up the GPL'd source.