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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. No usable encryption by LotsOfPhil · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the open firmware shortcomings is "WPA and WPA2 are not working." That is a pretty big shortcoming.

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