Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware

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Open source Wi-Fi router project OpenWrt and the Software Freedom Conservancy have delivered their first jointly developed hardware platform – the OpenWrt One – and are trumpeting it as a triumph of the right to repair movement.

OpenWrt is widely used by commercial router-makers, who take advantage of its GNU General Public License Version 2 to accelerate development of mostly consumer- and SOHO-grade hardware.they had contemplated celebrating the project's 20th anniversary by creating its own hardware.

The device has passed full compliance tests conducted by the US Federal Communications Commission – both for hardware and for OpenWrt itself. The SFC's announcement post calls that a win because"Industry 'conventional wisdom' often argues that FCC requirements somehow conflict with the software right to repair." The Conservancy"has long argued that's pure FUD.

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