DaDogs
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Re: Pretty Good Article
said by B  :He provides a small nod to what he calls the "culture war" surrounding Sveasoft's abusive tactics and goes into some detail on the subject of firmware mods as a whole. Not bad. (But no HyperWRT?) -- B Of course, you will NEVER cease redefining what the rest of the industry, including the FSF, recognizes as legitimate so we need to actually quote what the gentleman actually wrote to preclude misinformation and outright distortion:
Sveasoft was one of the first developers of a WRT54G firmware based on Linksys’ open source version. Many branches in the firmware family tree, including DD-WRT, are themselves based on Sveasoft’s early modification. Buffeted by the success and enthusiasm generated by their firmware offerings, Sveasoft chose to build a business model around their subsequent releases. Because of the GPL roots of the original Linksys firmware, Sveasoft cannot prevent distribution of their own modifications. As a workaround, they’ve chosen to implement a membership fee of $20 per year to access the Sveasoft “community,” wherein support and new releases are made available. Some in the open source community object to the “wall” Sveasoft has built around its free firmware, and take it upon themselves to release Sveasoft’s work into the public.
Infighting aside, Sveasoft’s older Alchemy and newer Talisman firmware are popular and widely available. BrainSlayer’s DD-WRT is free of the Sveasoft culture war, and is itself an extremely powerful and actively maintained firmware.
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B
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Oh stop it. I was applauding that the author addressed it in a fairminded way; I redefined nothing. Please be constructive. (Outright distortion?? Go away.)
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DaDogs
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| said by B :Oh stop it. I was applauding that the author addressed it in a fairminded way; I redefined nothing. Please be constructive. (Outright distortion?? Go away.) -- B Oh, my I must have misunderstood the slant of your comments. 
My bad, surely you would never imply that you had, "ethical" issues with Sveasoft...
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B
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I thought it was good that the author addressed it at all -- that was my point. He didn't come down on either side, but he gave a "small nod" to the issue, which might help explain to a new reader why there are forks in the first place. You really didn't have to reflexively and protectively quote the article.
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insomniac84
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I am pretty sure most of the modifications sveasoft added to the linksys firmware was code written by other people, at least in the beginning. |
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DaDogs
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said by B :I thought it was good that the author addressed it at all -- that was my point. said by B :I do prefer to stay away from the Sveasoft codebase on ethical grounds. He didn't come down on either side, but he gave a "small nod" to the issue, which might help explain to a new reader why there are forks in the first place. said by B :I do prefer to stay away from the Sveasoft codebase on ethical grounds. You really didn't have to reflexively and protectively quote the article. said by B :I do prefer to stay away from the Sveasoft codebase on ethical grounds. -- B You decide what you need to do, I will decide what I need to do. Hopefully, I will be more honest with everyone else than you are being with yourself. 
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rtcy
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| I don't get this "comunist""socialist" mentality that some people have cloaked the open software movement in.
Sveasoft has the right to take open software and modify it and sell it. he has a right to eat and make a living.
Redhat has slowly tried to get out from under the cloak and has come up with a "funny" way of getting around it.
I wish the whole thing was rewritten (and they have tried to no avail) so that we can finally get a Linux distribution that can truly compete with Windows and the popularity it shares in thousands of "actually" usable and enjoyable software.
no this is not a troll line just my views.
I dual boot 4 OS's but when I need to do several things that I need to get done it's always in XP, because that is where the software IS.
Even games are barely making a scratch in Linux, then there's the poor drivers for hardware, this mentallity is what keeps ATI from releasing software for their AIW cards and many many other companies too.
I like Sveasoft and 20.00 dollars for their hardwork is a penny's worth to me. |
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