Re:Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab
by auveair on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:31AM
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> It's the right of every open source software author to continue working on their software privately under a different license, and that's exactly what happened here.
Yep, and nobody had any qualms about it in this thread, which is why I find such posts to be tiresome to read.
> Just because you are not happy that you don't have access to their software for free any more doesn't mean it's against the open source spirit.
This is exactly what I'm complaining about, I never said I wasn't happy.
Re:Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab
by red-iron-pine on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:05PM
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whole lotta people making a ton of money from FOSS, selling packages on hardware. everything android or MacOS comes to mind
You are miss-understanding what open source means. It doesn't mean everything has to be free. Many companies are built on top of open source software which allows them to do exactly that in their license. You also don't know if pfsense sponsors packages or contributes code to the packages they are using.
It's the right of every open source software author to continue working on their software privately under a different license, and that's exactly what happened here.
Just because you are not happy that you don't have access to their software for free any more doesn't mean it's against the open source spirit.