The only professional use of ddwrt I’ve seen is Macca’s guest access… It’s an awesome project… but…

If you’re serious, you actually use enterprise grade products with guaranteed support. You don’t build your own APs. Literally, no company I know does that 😂 .

Perfect example of why oss doesn’t guarantee anything, is devFS which was a core component of Linux was depreciated before a replacement even existed. There were no maintainers despite it being critical to Linux

There are major core Linux projects which are being maintained by only 1 or 2 people.

Parts of xorg also only have 1 or 2 people in the world who understand the code apparently.

I’ve never seen Linksys installed at any high density jobs . And I don’t think I will.

They’ve been sold to 3 different companies in 20 years. It’s generally not a good indicator if network companies are happy to sell their child companies to competitors lol

But yes, the wrt54g 20+ years ago was a stroke of genius. It wasn’t the best router available, but it definitely changed the hobbyist market