Oh please Chadster! Linksys/Belkin may be listening, but they aren't doing much of anything to live up to the marketing promises made at the release of this product. I've been pretty patient and quiet, watching from the sidelines as this whole passion play has unfolded, but, finally like many over at the OpenWRT forum, I've about had it. After being promised full, FULL open source support from Linksys/Belkin, and after the latest backtrack from the one Belkin dev who has been forthcoming on what is happening, there is again/still no timetable for a full and complete source code release of a wireless driver from Marvell. What they are providing is yet another binary. It's fairly obvious that the talking heads at Linksys/Belkin marketing made promises without knowledge of what the powers that be at Marvell and the Linksys/Belkin devs knew. Who knows now, if and when those promises will ever be kept. I'm going back to Broadcom-based products where there are none of these legal B S dances between Marvell and Linksys/Belkin. Linksys/Belkin would be better advised in the future to: 1. Avoid suppliers who balk at providing source code for their drivers and, 2. Coordinate better between marketing and the devs before making promises that they can't live up to. What could have been a successful return to the Open Source router community by Linksys/Belkin has instead turned into an unmitigated fiasco. I've completely lost trust in any marketing promises made by Linksys/Belkin and feel as though I've been misled.
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