LXer: Welte: Netgear "Open source" router not open

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10-08-2009, 09:20 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,787 Rep:	LXer: Welte: Netgear "Open source" router not open Published at LXer: The recently announced Netgear RangeMax WNR3500L, dubbed an "Open Source Linux Router" by Netgear has been criticised for not being sufficiently open. Founder of gpl-violations.org, Harald Welte, points out in a blog posting that the router ships with binary-only kernel modules and that these modules only work with a Linux 2.4 kernel, such as the Linux 2.4.20 based firmware that Netgear ship with the device. Read More...

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