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Re:$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router by tmikaeld on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:19AM (#32355045)
Why are some of their devices EOL if they use OpenWRT?
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Re:$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router by suprjami on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:25PM (#32361560)
Because companies don't make the same product forever.

Why aren't Ford making the Model T anymore? Why aren't Viewsonic making CRT monitors anymore? etc

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Re:$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router by tmikaeld on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:16AM (#32366085)
Of course I didn't mean hardware EOL, that I understand, but why discontinue software updates then?
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Re:$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router by suprjami on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:50AM (#32366887)
Because they're a business, not a charity.

They also do this the right way and upstream device support before they sell the device, so they don't have to support it. Upstream OpenWrt are already doing it.

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