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They aren’t just trying to sell a router, they are trying to make available a fully open router without blobs right from boot, that is unbrickable, and selling
by applied_heat 3y ago
They aren’t just trying to sell a router, they are trying to make available a fully open router without blobs right from boot, that is unbrickable, and selling it essentially at cost
- CyberDildonics 3y agoWhere are the numbers here? How does what you are saying connect to what is being talked about in a concrete way? You are talking about software and saying it has to cost $100 or more while there are $30 routers on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082HH24YY/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082HH24YY/
- dwater 3y agoThis is more or less discussed in the link. They started looking at BananaPi products as a starting point, but have some requirements that existing boards don't fulfill. One in particular that probably precludes all of the $30 boards you're talking is: "that this router isabeautiful (sic) example of excellent GPL/LGPL compliance"
- d3w4s9 3y agoThese routers are crap. Anyone who cares a tiny bit about their wireless connectivity won't buy this. And I don't think OpenWRT wants to associate their name with "low-quality" routers.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoWhat you are saying here is speculation. Most router's shortcoming is software. I've used cheap netgear routers with openwrt and they work incredibly well.