[hinkley]

Linksys is owned by Cisco, and I don't know what they do now, but at the time a Cisco low-end router had no specialty hardware to run a lot of their features. Those features were implemented in software.

So openwrt threatens their entry level and some of their mid-range devices, creating a conflict of interests.

[filmgirlcw]

Cisco hasn’t owned Linksys since 2013. Belkin bought it from Cisco and kept the brand.

[shmerl]

Belkin was bought by Foxconn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys#History

However modern WRT routers are also affected by NXP buying Marvell.

[clashandcarry]

Linksys is currently owned by Foxconn.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/26/17166272/foxconn-buys-bel...

[jgalt212]

Both were then subsequently sold to the Sheinhardt Wig Company.

[Forge36]

This feels like it needs a graph to explain what went where.

[lstamour]

As FYI, it’s still owned by Foxconn; that was a joke.

[ornornor]

It’s from 30 rock.