Netgate is weirdly hostile to a lot of opensource stuff, which should be strange given what all their tech is built on top of. This has been going on for years. (see opnsense etc)
They've recently forked their open and closed source products, so a lot of people have been migrating to OPNSense. I've been using it for a couple months now and recommend it.
Same. I didn't really care for open-source-ness or for the anti-OPNsense smear campaigns as much, but when they announced they were EOLing the product I used I jumped ship to OPNsense too.
It does everything my pfSense install did and then some. Eg DNS blocking and IP blocking are built-in instead of needing a pfblockerng-style plugin.
The only thing I've found worth complaining about is the accordion sidebar UI thing makes it hard to middle-click-open new browser tabs, because it's not obvious which entries in the sidebar are actual pages and which are fake hyperlinks that just expand the accordion submenu.
It seems clear to me this is a case of passionate coders with different personalities struggling with the difficult work of human communication in a world with limited resources and time.
No one has to be the bad guy here or end up hostile to open source.
I mean, Linus has openly acknowledged that he has behaved unprofessionally in the emails he sends to people who are trying to contribute. There isn't anything secret here.
Maybe. It's not necessarily without reason -- if you make a lot of contributions and they are generally very well received, it's quite sensible to anticipate that further contributions will be equally well received and to be surprised if they're not.
This was made worse by the unfortunate timing -- the final release candidate is just 3 days away. Any other time, we would have gone slower, had more discussion, et cetera; unfortunately this turned into an emergency.