I hear your concerns, and just want to add some recent experience that I believe is positive. I submitted a pull request this week, and they reviewed it within

I hear your concerns, and just want to add some recent experience that I believe is positive. I submitted a pull request this week, and they reviewed it within hours with informative feedback. The most recent major release overhauled their UI to use bootstrap, which has enhanced usability. They plan a REST API in the next major version. They've been presenting new work on L3 routing over netnap ("extremely fast and efficient packet I/O for both userspace and kernel clients") which can reach line rate on 10GB networks. https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd/blob/master/netmap-fwd.pdf https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd/blob/master/netmap-fwd... I understand the concerns about loosing someone as talented as CMB, but the others at Netgate appear to be engaging, open and very talented.