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The only purpose of this repository is to document the false advertising of the so-called "open-source" pfSense®™ project. Brought to you courtesy of Netgate/Rubicon Communications LLC/ Electric Sheep Fencing LLC.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2021-01-16 · latest 2022-05-24

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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. …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