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FreeBSD-Powered Firewall Distro OPNsense 16.1 Released (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the sub-systems dept.

An anonymous reader writes: OPNsense, the open-source firewall project powered by FreeBSD that began as a fork of pfSense, is out with a new release. OPNsense 16.1 was developed over the past half-year and is a big update. OPNsense 16.1 has upgraded to using a FreeBSD 10.2 base, support for a high-speed IPS mode, a redesigned captive portal, firewall improvements, and a wide range of other work.

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  1. Re:Why they forked by thoromyr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how are they "cashing in"? If it is freely available, open source, and under a mainstream license (such as Apple, BSD, GPL, Apache) then there are about two ways to make money off of it:

    1) sell customized versions
    2) reputation from the product

    Neither one seems like "cashing in" as it requires them to do work. And the licensing was only one part identified (such as separation of privileges is a failure major point) so "their chosen terms instead of ESF's" is focusing on a single part of the reason.

    In fact, the only people who I can see having a gripe would be ESF as this dilutes "their product". Welcome to the world of open source...