Netgate are _terrible_ at open source, though — they’re shit at accepting contributions, they’re shit at providing attribution, and they’re shit at providing any support whatsoever to anyone who prefers other hardware (even with their paid software).

So I really can’t say I recommend their hardware…

I ask that you provide evidence of your assertions:

- they’re shit at accepting contributions

- they’re shit at providing attribution

- they’re shit at providing any support whatsoever to anyone who prefers other hardware (even with their paid software).

In addition to pfSense (which is what I think you're criticizing) and all of its open source, we're upstreaming things to FreeBSD and fd.io VPP

Try this on a fresh copy of FreeBSD 'src':

% git log --first-parent --since="1 year" | sed -E 's/\^.*Sponsored.\[Bb\]y:\[\[:space:\]\]*//p' | grep -i Sponsored | sed -E 's/.*\[Ss\]ponsored\ \[Bb\]y://' | awk '{$1=$1};1' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

or for VPP, look here:

https://www.stackalytics.io/unaffiliated?module=github.com/f...