I think its time for consumers to demand the ability to run open source operating systems on their devices! All consumer routers should have open device drivers. Right now its a lot of closed firmware from both router makers and the wireless radio chip manufacturers that prevents that. There is very few 802.11ac devices that is well supported by OpenWRT because of closed drivers and firmware.<p>Lets face it, the manufacturer are not that interested in supporting the operating system of your device after a few years. Device manufacturers profit from selling you new devices not maintaining old devices. Throwing a perfect working hardware device just because it has outdated software is bad for the environment and not good when we have global warming. Do we want to have a Wall-E kind of future scenario of the working junk we consume and throw to consume to throw?<p>This is of course not only consumer routers, all devices that run embedded software that the manufacturer stops caring for are in danger of getting hacked. If they can be hacked they will be hacked - hackers law.<p>Why does consumer devices have to be that different from a PC? A PC can load any operating system you like on including good open source operating systems.<p>This is also the same for cell phones, there are lots of Android devices with older releases that are not security updated.