[Jalad]

Linksys got GPL'd when they released the WRT54G which spawned off OpenWRT, ddwrt, and friends. This blunder on their part sparked a boon of open source firmware development, which ultimately made the WRT54G very popular. Compatibility with open source firmware is a hard requirement for any new router purchases that I make

[pabs3]

The GPL code release also only happened because of GPL enforcement, some of the history is written about here:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st...

[thomastjeffery]

Several years back, I put Tomato firmware on an old WRT54G when all my old 802.11N devices were constantly crashing.

It was 100% worth the bandwidth downgrade. I practically never had to touch that router again.

I hope to never buy a router without DD-WRT (or equivalent free software) support again.