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Harald Welte Calls Out Netgear's Open Source Sham

Posted by timothy on from the they're-workin'-on-it dept.

Simon80 writes "Harald Welte, known for his involvement in various open source communities, has pointed out the shortcomings of Netgear's open source router hype. Netgear's own astroturfed community site reveals that the router requires the use of binary-only kernel modules for the wireless and ethernet hardware, which is supplied by Broadcom. Also worth noting are the missing features in third-party firmware versions supplied by Netgear."

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  1. Re:No usable encryption by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No WPA(2) sounds very open to me.

  2. Re:I'm sorry, did I miss something? by Belial6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lets just hope our municipalities don't use your logic when they say the water out of our taps is 'potable'. I would hate to think that after people start dying around town that the water authority doesn't make the statement of "We didn't say that it was _only_ potable water that we were pumping through your pipes."