They're basically partnering with an existing hardware manufacturer (Banana Pi), and using their existing storefront for the other products. That happens to be

They're basically partnering with an existing hardware manufacturer (Banana Pi), and using their existing storefront for the other products. That happens to be AliExpress because the kind of people purchasing the existing products don't mind it. Makes way more sense then OpenWRT spinning up a new team just to manage the storefront for the single product that isn't core to what they're doing. This way they don't even need to manage inventory.