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by tw04 1923 days ago
> it surely isn't in a professional and business world especially when the work is sponsored ( being paid ).

To play devil's advocate: Netgate isn't paying Jason, and they're taking his open source code to create a proprietary commercial project. I'd say Jason owes them exactly nothing in the way of courtesy or consideration. Could he have been more polite for the sake of being polite and community goodwill? Probably.
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ksec 1923 days ago
>and they're taking his open source code to create a proprietary commercial project.

I am not sure if that is the case. Netgate seems to have used their old crappy sponsored work for their Pfsense.

That is judging from the two pieces of information here. Jason doesn't need to be of consideration for Netgate. There could be other communication we dont know about. I can certainly understand why Scott is frustrated.

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tw04 1923 days ago
>I am not sure if that is the case. Netgate seems to have used their old crappy sponsored work for their Pfsense.

Their sponsored work was based off of the Linux and OpenBSD code that Jason and others wrote. And even if it didn't utilize that code, you literally can't write a wireguard client without building on Jason's work.

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