▲ 121 ▼ pfsense is open washing (github.com) submitted 1 year ago by artiman@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago (5 children) Isn’t this why we have OpnSense? permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] somewa@suppo.fi 36 points 1 year ago (4 children) No, OPNsense doesn't exist because of pfsense false advertising and misleading people to think it's open source. More like it exists because of pfsense not being open source. This has nothing to do with the advertising. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago ✅ permalink fedilink source parent [–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 year ago Ok. Shakin my head here. I certainly believed pfSense was opensource. I switched to OPNsense this year, mostly because that's what we use at work. It sounds like I'm on the right one then? Or is somebody next week gonna tell me OPNsense is a fully corporate orphan crushing operation? permalink fedilink source parent [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) What's proprietary about pfSense? Been using it for a decade and this is news to me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago The article is a good start. For one, you cannot build it. They have some sort of proprietary blob in their toolchain so that only netgate can build it. Between that, the massive security fuckups, and the absolutely horrid behavior from the maintainers I dumped that shit and haven't looked back. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] somewa@suppo.fi 36 points 1 year ago (4 children) No, OPNsense doesn't exist because of pfsense false advertising and misleading people to think it's open source. More like it exists because of pfsense not being open source. This has nothing to do with the advertising. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago ✅ permalink fedilink source parent [–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 year ago Ok. Shakin my head here. I certainly believed pfSense was opensource. I switched to OPNsense this year, mostly because that's what we use at work. It sounds like I'm on the right one then? Or is somebody next week gonna tell me OPNsense is a fully corporate orphan crushing operation? permalink fedilink source parent [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) What's proprietary about pfSense? Been using it for a decade and this is news to me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago The article is a good start. For one, you cannot build it. They have some sort of proprietary blob in their toolchain so that only netgate can build it. Between that, the massive security fuckups, and the absolutely horrid behavior from the maintainers I dumped that shit and haven't looked back. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 year ago Ok. Shakin my head here. I certainly believed pfSense was opensource. I switched to OPNsense this year, mostly because that's what we use at work. It sounds like I'm on the right one then? Or is somebody next week gonna tell me OPNsense is a fully corporate orphan crushing operation? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) What's proprietary about pfSense? Been using it for a decade and this is news to me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago The article is a good start. For one, you cannot build it. They have some sort of proprietary blob in their toolchain so that only netgate can build it. Between that, the massive security fuckups, and the absolutely horrid behavior from the maintainers I dumped that shit and haven't looked back. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago The article is a good start. For one, you cannot build it. They have some sort of proprietary blob in their toolchain so that only netgate can build it. Between that, the massive security fuckups, and the absolutely horrid behavior from the maintainers I dumped that shit and haven't looked back. permalink fedilink source parent