<div dir="ltr"><div>I have been using them for a while and I even have a support contract but I am nervous about this as well. After some deeper conversations with a sales person there who insisted "everyone is stealing their software" I informed them that the only reason I was using their system was because I was able to use it before I bought it and that it was open source. I really don't think that person understood the OSS concept at all. That being said, i have never had any issues calling their tech support and getting help on any issues I have come across regardless of if it was a bug or self imposed. I still recommend them for now, but if they start to crack down beyond the stupid warning I will be jumping ship and they will loose my business. This is just my 2 cents though.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700<br>
Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5<br>
> purchasing them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of<br>
> expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared<br>
> that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all<br>
> features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products.<br>
<br>
While we're on the subject, I've used pfSense for over a decade and<br>
recently upgraded at least two versions. The new version has all sorts<br>
of admonitions that you can't sell pfSense because it belongs to<br>
Netgate, and if you bought it from Netgate you have to do this and<br>
that, and you can't use their trademark, and go to this page to buy it,<br>
blah blah blah blah blah. I've been totally satisfied with pfSense for<br>
over a decade, but am now considering moving to a straight OpenBSD/pf<br>
setup, or pfSense's competitor OPNsense, or even switch to a Linux<br>
firewall with IPTables, which I've always thought to be a multi-acre<br>
field of sharply thorned brambles.<br>
<br>
Anyone else getting jittery about pfSense?<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
Steve Litt <br>
June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times<br>
<a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive</a><br>
---------------------------------------------------<br>
PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
<a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></blockquote></div>