XORP Goes Live, Feb 25, 2005

Why build something like XORP? Just as Linux fans accuse Microsoft of stifling innovation, XORP's creators say router vendors are holding back progress. The problem is that each company's routing code is proprietary and not available for users to tweak. "They're inaccessible to you. You can't go to your router and add, say, some new piece of security," Ghosh says. "It's very difficult to experiment or innovate."