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.


On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700
Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5
> purchasing them now.  I have customers that use nginx in place of
> expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared
> that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all
> features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products.

While we're on the subject, I've used pfSense for over a decade and
recently upgraded at least two versions. The new version has all sorts
of admonitions that you can't sell pfSense because it belongs to
Netgate, and if you bought it from Netgate you have to do this and
that, and you can't use their trademark, and go to this page to buy it,
blah blah blah blah blah. I've been totally satisfied with pfSense for
over a decade, but am now considering moving to a straight OpenBSD/pf
setup, or pfSense's competitor OPNsense, or even switch to a Linux
firewall with IPTables, which I've always thought to be a multi-acre
field of sharply thorned brambles.

Anyone else getting jittery about pfSense?

SteveT

Steve Litt
June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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