On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:29:08 GJB wrote:
> Linksys (CISCO) has a long history of conflicted emotions over OSS.
>
> Sveasoft and OpenWRT and others have provided work around firmwares for
> Linksys products.
>
> Interesting FSF should be doing it now after such a long period of
> abuse, I wonder why?

The press release implies they've been talking to Cisco about GPL compliance
since 2004 at least - sound like they gave up and called in the lawyers -
seems reasonable after 4 years.

I agree. Normally Harold Welte has dealt with many of these and got settlement quite early in the piece:
http://gpl-violations.org/