[SpecialistK]

pfSense maintains some momentum due to name recognition, but anyone who digs a little deeper will see that they're clowns and go with OPN instead.

[luckman212]

Can you please cite some recent examples of this clownlike behavior?

[IntelMiner]

They harassed the OPNsense team, registering a domain to besmirch them and then pretended to have nothing to do with it until ICANN got involved

Oh, and they knowingly shipped a broken and insecure Wireguard to their customers, and tried to use their FreeBSD commit status to force it upstream

[SpecialistK]

This is the most recent one I'm familiar with. Jason D even had to get involved and there was a lot of bad blood.

[guiambros]

Try compiling pfSense.

No, here's an even simpler task: try compiling packages for pfSense.

The clowns from Netgate made it unbelievably difficult, for no good reason other than being antagonist to the open source community.

[SpecialistK]

Meanwhile, I've never tried building OPN but it looks well documented and can be added to a vanilla FreeBSD install. https://github.com/opnsense/core

[riedel]

Out of curiosity I googled 'pfsense clown' and found this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/1ct683k/clown_mom...