AFAIK most lower-end routers have pretty generic firmware (with their logo added) as well. Maybe paying a no-name firmware sweatshop to tweak some reference firmware is cheaper than tweaking OpenWhatever.
Do they even have enough memory for OpenWRT? Maybe DD-WRT.
At the low end, I'd think the chipset manufacturer would do most of the software work, then the device manufacturer just cosmetically tweaks the reference.
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AFAIK most lower-end routers have pretty generic firmware (with their logo added) as well. Maybe paying a no-name firmware sweatshop to tweak some reference firmware is cheaper than tweaking OpenWhatever.
Do they even have enough memory for OpenWRT? Maybe DD-WRT.
At the low end, I'd think the chipset manufacturer would do most of the software work, then the device manufacturer just cosmetically tweaks the reference.
Ah, memories of the bad old days when the VxWorks license fee was less than the cost of the extra RAM necessary to run Linux.