pfSense and Netgate: was New Nginx documentation for beginners

[Shawn Badger]

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 at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700
> Michael Butash <michael at 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
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