[thayne]

> Every router manufacturer should build devices that can run the OSes of all their competitors' devices and vice versa.

Or they could just run an existing open source OS, like openwrt.

[alsetmusic]

You completely missed the point of what I said. I have a Linksys as a cheap backup in case my real router (Netgate / pfsense) dies. The Linksys is running OpenWRT and hopefully I'll never need to plug it in ever again.

I had to verify that OpenWRT was compatible when I bought it _to be a backup_. Re-read what I said about everything being commodity hardware that can run any other device firmware / OS.