Re:Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
by AlyssaRowan on Sunday July 20, 2014 @08:03PM
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Do what you were going to do anyway. Wanted to open-licence the patents? Do it.
But unless you can open all the firmware, no-one who knows what they're doing will want to know, in this scenario. No excuses.
(As for the Raspberry Pi - actually, the stock firmware uses the ThreadX RTOS which Broadcom don't own and can't completely open-source - but they've got someone writing a set of open firmware, although it'll be a while in coming.)
But unless you can open all the firmware, no-one who knows what they're doing will want to know, in this scenario. No excuses.
(As for the Raspberry Pi - actually, the stock firmware uses the ThreadX RTOS which Broadcom don't own and can't completely open-source - but they've got someone writing a set of open firmware, although it'll be a while in coming.)