That joke stinks.

"Just like LinkSys found with their wireless routers."

Did Linksys have their hand forced with releasing their GPL routers, or did they pretty cool about Linux, GPL and their routers from the beginning?

I have to believe that their routers are some of the most popular ones out there, primarily because a buyer, if they so choose, and easily upgrade to a different OS (which is what I did with my WRT54GL, which now has dd-wrt - I love it!)