So far I have noticed the usual comments of “I am moving to something else…” but no one talking about the big picture of how open source get’s made and more importantly to this discussion, how FreeBSD keeps getting updates.
The sad reality is FreeBSD is not near what it used to be in term of development and contributors. Without the contributions of Netgate & Juniper pushed upstream, OPNSense does not continue to get as many new features & updates. This has nothing to do with peoples opinions or feelings about how Netgate operates as a company, and I am not here to defend what is obviously a failure on their part to communicate their changes to the community in a clear way (hoping they a have blog post soon).
I am a long time open source advocate but I am also aware of the challenges many open source project face, especially those based on BSD. Like it or not, the reality is we need companies like Juniper and Netgate to keep pushing forward for development related to firewall features or other downstream projects die.
