Well, it's not really about any of that. It's the same stuff they have been saying, but what it is actually about is trying to say 'we are a neat community FOSS

Well, it's not really about any of that. It's the same stuff they have been saying, but what it is actually about is trying to say 'we are a neat community FOSS project' on one side, by actually being a generic commercial vendor that happens to have an open OS due to legacy reasons. In the 1.2.3 and early 2.0 days, it was all fine, before that it was mostly 'just monowall' and after that it was 'lets try to work full time on this stuff and make money'. There is no reason to be assholes as other projects work fine using the same free open core + paid enterprise version, this is something Netgate-specific, probably due to the hardware business where you have physical things that lose value unless you unload them quickly. Now, don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying commercial business of trying to sell hardware/software is inherently bad, but being pissy because someone else does it too is just weak.