Linksys Releases GPLed Code for WRT54G

petree writes "I stumbled across this on the Linksys website. Linksys has apparently caved to community pressure and released the GPLed source for linux running on their WRT54G. Cool Beans!"

Ah, Linksys

[Anonymous Coward]

They're too lazy to code proper, secure solutions for their products, so they send it to the OSS community to do.

And now what?

[ObviousGuy]

Are you going to go build your own router?

Are you going to comb through the code only to find that it's not that much different from the other code you never look at?

Face it, if it some source is vital to your company staying competitive, it isn't going to be GPL'd.

Cool Beans?

[aaron240]

What is this, 1988?

Is it also "rad" that the code was released?

My apologies, I'm on a tear today. Hella has to go the way of "cool beans", but it looks like these things never die. *sighs*

Re:A wireless network. For a dorm room.

[soulsteal]

Maybe he's decided to take a different course of action in the killing of superfluous sperm.

Re:Its nice to see

[Anonymous Coward]

But for their delay, they're getting a right good slashdotting on the weekend!

Hidden costs of cat5

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the duct tape to hold it to the walls? Did you think about that when you came up with that outrageous $5.00 figure??

Re:And now what?

[ryanr]

No, I'm going to load strange software on it, and make it do things that have little or no practical value.

Because I can.

Re:They are still in violation

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Link$y$:

I am aghast and appalled at your continuing flagrant violation of the GNU Public License. Your paws are dirty with the hard work of many hundreds of thousands of kernel developers who you ripped off by $elling the kernel code back to them without supplying the full source code for your product. Through this illegal action you have raised my and The Community's ire and we will stand and fight until you fully comply with the GPL. All your source MUST be turned over to The Community at once.

Please be aware that I am not alone in this battle. I am dogged and relentless and using the power of the Internet I will bring you into compliance with the GPL.

Don't fuck with us, Link$y$.

Sincerely,

Anonymous Coward

Well...

[wadetemp]

... it's not just for him, it's so his neighbors can connect to his network too. Whether he knows this or not, I don't know.

Hella?

[geekoid]

You really shouldn't condem the age of 'cool beans' and still use the word 'Hella'.

really, I've been hating the term hella since the late 80's.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some rad code to write that is really too hip to be square, dude.

i'll GPL you

[lurgyman]

Slashdot... where the GNU Public License became a verb ;)

So when does SCO file suit?

[Camel Racer]

If it contains OSS, it _must_ have been taken from SCO.... ;-) for the humor impaired

Gotta love Open Source

[Dewars]

From the Linksys code (udhcp/packet.c)

const char broken_vendors[][8] = {
"MSFT 98",
""
};

Re:Cool Beans?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is this, 1988?

Yes.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to adjust my mullet.

Re:Linux and the GPL..

[Anonymous Coward]

Who needs proof?

If the president of the united states of america doesnt need proof to invade and conquer a sovereign nation than why would someone need proof to show that linux is a tool of communists and other scary evil doers?

Sweet!

[appleLaserWriter]

Now SCO can sue Linksys too!

Find a security crack...

[Ian Jefferies]

Can the OSS community now modify the firmware and make custom things for it?

Perhaps we can find a security crack and get Linux to run on it.

Uh... cancel that.

Re:A wireless network. For a dorm room.

[cscx]

Apparently he hasn't discovered beer yet.

This reminds me...

[TeknoHog]

..of a loonie running around in our physics department, furiously yelling things like "I'll differentiate you!".

So, this other guy comes along and says, "I'm not afraid of you! I'm e to the x."

"Well that's just too bad, I'm d/dy!"

No such luck

[CausticWindow]

with the Barricade I've got from SMC (it's got Linksys firmware).

The firmware .bin is an arj'ed file, but the only thing of interest in the unpacked file is this string:

Hey Moe, it dont woik. NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK *bop* Owww!

In the WRT54G, one of the first strings is:

piggy

Hm