If you’re a WRT54G user (Linkysys Wireless Access Point), you’ve probably heard of Sveasoft. They where one of the first “companies”/sites to release updates software to the WRT routers. They released older firmware to the public and decided that if you wanted the latest and greatest, that you should pay. Well ladies and gents, I paid that fee about 2 years ago and I was getting soooo tired of my router dumping connections left right and center. Granted, I stuck with one package and never upgraded, but I never upgraded due to the fact that I started finding out how bad the tactics of the company where. Nothing is more annoying for a developer or blogger for a company to email or post a nasty comment somewhere because of how you feel about software.
Anyway - I’ve finally decided to dump Sveasoft and not pay more for the next “Latest and Greatest”. At this point, I’ve upgraded to OpenWRT’s White Russian release (ie: Newest Stable) and hot damn, I’m happy. Again, I haven’t used the Newest Sveasoft, but my 3 Routers will all be using this within the next 24 hours.
If you really want to see what Sveasoft has been doing to the OSS community, feel free to check out a OpenWRT forum post.
