pfsense-is-closed-source

I'm reminded of the history of the term "open source" itself. It came from Eric S Raymond and other folks to counter Free Software/GPL in a more commercially minded way. I think Richard Stallman said it meant "you can view the source" without necessarily granting any other rights. I think since then it has been more defined, but there seem to be hidden gotcha's possible. Like maybe https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source

PSA: pfSense is closed-source [1]. It was discussed last month here on HN [2]. OPNsense is the equivalent FOSS alternative [3]. [1] https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25894420 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPNsense

>So having enough beef to push 1 gigabit NICs is good but planning for the future and adding 2.5 gb or higher is better. I'm using I5-2500K's for firewalls. 1 gigabit hardly moves the CPU usage. I have all NIC offload turned off. Btw. I would really consider OPNsense instead if you are building custom firewalls. Pfsense is an atrocious company. Trying to kill off OPNsense by buying domains that tell lies and AFAIK no one outside Netgate can actually build from source. They are not open source even though they claim so. They are also moving to using DRM. https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source