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Share the Article:. Obsolete products are those that are no longer manufactured. In a column for Linux Insider , Heather J.
Meeker, a lawyer focused on issues of intellectual property and open-source software, wrote that this would have been a tall order for Cisco to figure out on its own:. The first takeaway from this case is the difficulty of doing enough diligence on software development in an age of vertical disintegration. Cisco knew nothing about the problem, despite presumably having done intellectual property diligence on Linksys before it bought the company.
But to confound matters, Linksys probably knew nothing of the problem either, because Linksys has been buying the culprit chipsets from Broadcom, and Broadcom also presumably did not know, because it in turn outsourced the development of the firmware for the chipset to an overseas developer. To discover the problem, Cisco would have had to do diligence through three levels of product integration, which anyone in the mergers and acquisitions trade can tell you is just about impossible.
This was not sloppiness or carelessness—it was opaqueness. He added that, despite offering to help Cisco, they were not getting back to him. A WRT54G removed from its case. The device, thanks to its Linux firmware, became the target of both software and hardware hacks. To hackers, this opened up a world of opportunity, and third-party developers quickly added capabilities to the original hardware that was never intended. It also proved the root for some useful open-source firmware in the form of OpenWrt and Tomato , among others, which meant that there was a whole infrastructure to help extend your router beyond what the manufacturer wanted you to do.
Cisco was essentially compelled by the threat of legal action to release the Linux-based firmware under the GPL, but it was not thrilled to see that the device whose success finally gave it the foothold in the home that had long evaded the company being used in ways beyond what the box said.
This angered end users, and Cisco apparently realizing it had screwed up eventually released a Linux version of the router, the WRT54GL, which restored the specifications removed. Today, the company sells an entire line of black-and-blue routers that maintain support for open-source firmware.
They cost way more than the WRT54G ever did, though. Yes, hacking this device became so common that there is an entire page book dedicated to the concept. Now, to be clear, most people who bought a variant of the WRT54G at Best Buy likely did not care that the firmware was open source. But the decision created a cult of sorts around the device by making it hackable and able to do more things than the box on its own might have suggested.
And that cult audience helped to drive longstanding interest in the device well beyond its hacker roots. It was an unintentional word-of-mouth play, almost. A Ars Technica piece revealed the router, at the time, was still making millions of dollars a year for Linksys, which by that time had been sold to Belkin.
Despite being nowhere near as powerful as more expensive options, the WRT54GL—yes, specifically the one with Linux—retained an audience well into its second decade because it was perceived as being extremely reliable and easy to use.
And I think that is especially true in the context of the fact that it had a fairly sizable afterlife, just as the NES did. The result of all this is that, despite its extreme age and not-ready-for-the-living-room looks, it sold well for years past its sell-by date—in large part because of its reliance on open-source drivers. Find this one an interesting read? Share it with a pal! Ernie Smith is the editor of Tedium, and an active internet snarker.
Between his many internet side projects, he finds time to hang out with his wife Cat, who's funnier than he is. Find me on: Twitter Like this? Never had range issues, could share Internet with people in my apartment complex no problem and worked great in a 2-story house with a basement, with router on top floor. I would very much consider buying another one if mine ever dies. Karen Sohl was the 41st employee of Linksys, joining the company in She never left.
Sohl originally had a bunch of roles, as is typical at small companies, working in public relations, advertising, and running channel programs.
She is now director of global communications for Belkin, which purchased Linksys from Cisco in Linksys also sold wireless routers using the earlier Before Linksys started selling wireless routers, the company sold consumer routers without wireless capability, which could be used to connect a computer and a printer or a couple of computers in a home office.
Before selling routers, Linksys offered a home networking kit with a 5-port switch and two LAN cards, but Linksys co-founder Victor Tsao "decided he wanted to take an enterprise-grade router and repurpose it and make a solution for computers to share an Internet connection," Sohl said.
Linksys previewed its first consumer router at the COMDEX computer industry conference in November , before its official launch, but at the time was calling it an "Integrated Internet Hub. La Duca has only been with Linksys for about three years, but his first non-wireless router was a Linksys, which he used to get two PCs in his house connected to the Internet. It started with a bad decision: Cisco replaced the Linux-based firmware with the VxWorks platform, making it very difficult to flash with open source firmware.
Though it was a black eye for the company, Sohl said that "what could have been a really awful situation ended up being a positive, because it enabled us to do a lot of learning and get closer to the community. Linksys' relationship with the open source community remains strong today, with no better example than its recent collaboration with developers of OpenWrt and chipmaker Marvell.
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