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[Discuss] iGuardian "enterprise-grade" home router



On 9/30/2014 8:28 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Richard Pieri wrote:
>> Ubiquiti's...OS is proprietary...
>
> It's a Debian fork, 2-steps removed. (Fork of a fork.)

I could have sworn I saw Ubiquiti's literature use the word 
"proprietary" in there somewhere. Yep, it's in the packet acceleration 
chunk.


>> Ubiquiti's hardware is pretty open...
>
> I wouldn't consider either to meet the definition of open hardware.

Oh, by Ghu if you're going to quibble over open as in "run vanilla Linux 
on it" vs. Open as in "capital O Open" then I'm done.

-- 
Rich P.



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