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> Did you read the last line of the comment you replied to?

Yes. I read your entire comment and thought on it for a while before I replied. It's stupid to do otherwise.

> That someone from the community has made OpenWrt run fine on Ubiquiti gear has nothing to do with my comment and is not indicative of anything...

Yeah, except that it is. Your comment indicated that ongoing effort from the GL folks was relevant to having OpenWRT continue to run on the hardware:

> I'm less concerned with their jurisdiction and company profile than their absent software/firmware maintenance.

Ubiquiti is famously anti-open-source. They used to be less so with their routers, but always were very, very nasty when it came to their WiFi access points. There's no way in hell they're providing assistance (especially ongoing assistance) to the OpenWRT project.



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