Appears that TP-Link's heart is not in this -- they're doing the minimum to comply with FCC rules.
Will be interesting to watch the arms race between OpenWRT and the reluctant ODMs.
Will be interesting to watch the arms race between OpenWRT and the reluctant ODMs.
The FCC has commented that the minimum is significantly less than what TP-Link actually implemented. See https://ifixit.org/blog/7571/fcc-routers/ (and the linked FCC amendment) for more information.
The article you linked shows that people saw it coming:
> Open source projects might not be fully out of the woods yet, though. A few commenters on the FCC’s post have pointed out that some manufacturers might choose to lock down the whole router—as opposed to just the radio—as a cost-saving measure, even if that’s not what the FCC intended.
It does not matter that I replaced Ubuntu on my Galago with Arch or the DDWRT on my wzr-n600 with OpenWRT, becauase I'm on the books at these companies buying hardware running open source software.