Netgate: Difference between revisions

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==Consumer impact summary==

==Incidents==

While Netgate has contributed to BSD, the operating system on which its firewall pfSense is based on, the company has been criticized in recent years for its stance toward the open-source community.

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===Targeting other projects===

Netgate's co-founder, Jamie Thompson, has publicly criticized competing projects including OPNsense, a fork of pfSense.{{Citation needed}} OPNsense, which is endorsed by the developers of m0n0wall (the project from which pfSense originated), was also the target of a parody website,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OPNSense |url=http://www.opnsense.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsense.com/ |archive-date=14 Mar 2016 |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |website=}}</ref> allegedly created by Netgate. OPNsense had to file a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the disputed domain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 Nov 2017 |title=Netgate / pfSense acts in bad faith |url=https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ ~~|access-date=22 Mar 2025~~ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321054706/https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |archive-date=2025-03-21 |website=[[OPNSense]]}}</ref>

Netgate's co-founder, Jamie Thompson, has publicly criticized competing projects including OPNsense, a fork of pfSense.{{Citation needed}} OPNsense, which is endorsed by the developers of m0n0wall (the project from which pfSense originated), was also the target of a parody website,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OPNSense |url=http://www.opnsense.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsense.com/ |archive-date=14 Mar 2016 |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |website=}}</ref> allegedly created by Netgate. OPNsense had to file a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the disputed domain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 Nov 2017 |title=Netgate / pfSense acts in bad faith |url=https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321054706/https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |archive-date=2025-03-21 |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |website=[[OPNSense]]}}</ref>

~~==Incidents==~~

{{Placeholder box|This is a list of all consumer protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].}}

*[[Example incident one]] (date):Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).

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==Products==

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 ==Consumer impact summary==
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 While Netgate has contributed to BSD, the operating system on which its firewall pfSense is based on, the company has been criticized in recent years for its stance toward the open-source community.
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 ===Targeting other projects===
-Netgate's co-founder, Jamie Thompson, has publicly criticized competing projects including OPNsense, a fork of pfSense.{{Citation needed}} OPNsense, which is endorsed by the developers of m0n0wall (the project from which pfSense originated), was also the target of a parody website,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OPNSense |url=http://www.opnsense.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsense.com/ |archive-date=14 Mar 2016 |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |website=}}</ref> allegedly created by Netgate. OPNsense had to file a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the disputed domain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 Nov 2017 |title=Netgate / pfSense acts in bad faith |url=https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321054706/https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |archive-date=2025-03-21 |website=[[OPNSense]]}}</ref>
+Netgate's co-founder, Jamie Thompson, has publicly criticized competing projects including OPNsense, a fork of pfSense.{{Citation needed}} OPNsense, which is endorsed by the developers of m0n0wall (the project from which pfSense originated), was also the target of a parody website,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OPNSense |url=http://www.opnsense.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsense.com/ |archive-date=14 Mar 2016 |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |website=}}</ref> allegedly created by Netgate. OPNsense had to file a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the disputed domain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 Nov 2017 |title=Netgate / pfSense acts in bad faith |url=https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321054706/https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/ |archive-date=2025-03-21 |access-date=22 Mar 2025 |website=[[OPNSense]]}}</ref>
-==Incidents==
-{{Placeholder box|This is a list of all consumer protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].}}
-*[[Example incident one]] (date):Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
-*[[Example incident two]] (date):
 ==Products==