Turris Omnia is on the market for several months but seems to interest only linux geeks. Therefore it was a pleasant surprise that the public at CeBit really liked it.
Why open source router
Their first question was inspired by the slogan of our stand: “Why is this router open-source? What is it for?” Good question. Why should a router be “open source? First of all, because of you can be sure that it does what it is supposed to do. Transfer data where it is supposed to transfer to. That there are no backdoors or spies. You can be less and less sure of this when it comes to closed-source programs. Turris source codes are freely available and if you cannot study those, a lot of people had already studied those. Open source means security, not only for the open source fans but also for normal users.
Openness of the router is not only a security issue, but also usefulness and scalability. The visitors to our stand appreciated that they can install their own software to our router and utilize relatively powerful and still size- and energy-economical hardware instead of the usual server. We have encountered lots of demands …