Never trust corporations. If you’re not profitable, they will abandon you. Only trust community-driven projects with a true open source commitment.
Well, this corporation wasn’t worth a pinch of shit to start with. Netgate is run by a pack of vindictive twats.
What do you base that strong opinion on?
Netgate / pfSense acts in bad faith / WIPO decides in favour of OPNsense: https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/
Oh yeah. I do remember that. Ok. They’re assholes agree.
Been using OpenWRT for a long time on a cheap consumer router. Finally decided to upgrade to a fanless N100 appliance. Had to choose between OPNsense or pfSense.
pfSense just seemed too good to be true.
I bought a netgate box a couple of years back and it was total garbage. My new 2.5gb Protectli came in yesterday. Looks like I’ll be putting OPNsense on it.
Good choice. I’ve switched from pfSense to OPNsense over a year ago and I never looked back. Now that the news are out there’s one more reason for me to not look back.
Just in case no one else has seen the
, Netgate have walked back the change somewhat.
It is now going to require the original advertised TAC Lite/$129 a year subscription, which is what was stated from the inception of Home/Lab.
https://www.netgate.com/blog/netgate-pfsense-plus-tac-lite-available-for-129-per-year
This could potentially apply to me as I have a SG3100 that’d now EOL with no direct replacement, I was thinking of getting a non netgate appliance but restoring my PFSense plus to that new device, this now means I’d be forced to get a subscription to TaC to use Plus on a non netgate device? Wording isn’t very clear to me.
If you backup your config now, you’d be able to apply the config to CE 2.7.x.
While this would limit you to an x86 type device, you wouldn’t be out of options.
I am an owner of an SG-3100 as well (we don’t use it anymore), but that device was what soured me on Netgate after using pfSense on a DIY router at our office for years…
I continued to use pfSense because of the sunk costs involved (time, experience, knowledge). This is likely the turning point.
Until now my SG3100 experience hasn’t been bad at all. I’ve been using it since like 2018 and don’t have much to complain about thankfully.
