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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1101511" data-attributes="member: 114717">Nobody does it because it just ain&#039;t profitable and, most importantly, it requires an extensive sacrifice of time. The ones that remain - BiniSoft WFC, SimpleWall, TinyWall, and there is one other - IIRC Windows 10 Firewall Control with limited features (Sphinx, looks as if its user forum is still active) - they are all one-person shops. The TinyWall developer refactored the code base, but by the time he did that he had already moved-on from TinyWall years earlier as his main gig is creating and selling niche hardware. The BiniSoft WFC is still active over at Wilders. I suppose it is the same for henrypp+ for SimpleWall. Not sure if he is still at it.The era of freeware is over. The developers that created those projects and maintained them are all aging and moving on. That decades-old &quot;free software for all&quot; ideology is slowly dying off along with the project developers. The list of dead freeware security software is a long one. The only ones that remain reasonably maintained are those that are subsidized by paying subscribers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1101511, member: 114717"] Nobody does it because it just ain't profitable and, most importantly, it requires an extensive sacrifice of time. The ones that remain - BiniSoft WFC, SimpleWall, TinyWall, and there is one other - IIRC Windows 10 Firewall Control with limited features (Sphinx, looks as if its user forum is still active) - they are all one-person shops. The TinyWall developer refactored the code base, but by the time he did that he had already moved-on from TinyWall years earlier as his main gig is creating and selling niche hardware. The BiniSoft WFC is still active over at Wilders. I suppose it is the same for henrypp+ for SimpleWall. Not sure if he is still at it. The era of freeware is over. The developers that created those projects and maintained them are all aging and moving on. That decades-old "free software for all" ideology is slowly dying off along with the project developers. The list of dead freeware security software is a long one. The only ones that remain reasonably maintained are those that are subsidized by paying subscribers. [/QUOTE]

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