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The vestiges of community work on alternative firmware images is pretty h0rked
though. Between basic misunderstandings about licensing and a propsensity for
flamewars, there’s basically no really cool stuff happening. (I still
can’t understand the oft-spun yet entirely idiotic claim that flamewars in FOSS
communities are ‘healthy’.) The most promising projects so far are EWRT, OpenWRT and the almost-maybe-half-open
Sveasoft firmware releases.

Fun hardware to hack on though!