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commit 4b80ae2446dac4b4eacf5e9b29170b9fdc763f8c
Author: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
Date: Sun Dec 14 22:23:07 2014 +0100
blog: Add new article.
Also adjusted the CSS for tables a bit.
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+# About GnupG and g10 code
+#+AUTHOR: Werner
+#+DATE: 14th December 2014
+
+** GnuPG and g10^code
+
+After the release of GnuPG 1.0 in 1999 it turned out that this was not
+a write once and forget project. The unrestricted availability of the
+software and public concerns about the acquirement of /PGP Inc./ by
+/NAI Inc./ (coincidentally at the time of the initial GnuPG release in
+December 1997) raised a lot of interest by those who always cared
+about privacy issues.
+
+Fortunately the funding of the Windows port by the German Ministry of
+Economics helped to finance the maintenance and further developments
+in 1999 and 2000. After that I decided to keep on working on GnuPG
+full time and founded [[https://g10code.com][g10^code GmbH]] in 2001 as a legal framework for
+it. The company is owned entirely by my brother [[http://www.u32.de][Walter]] and myself and
+I like to thank him for his long time support and waive of profit
+distribution. If you ever wondered about the name: /g10/ is a
+reference on the German constitution article on freedom of
+communication (Grundgesetz [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artikel_10_des_Grundgesetzes_f%C3%BCr_die_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland][Artikel 10]]) and a pun on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_zur_Beschr%C3%A4nkung_des_Brief-,_Post-_und_Fernmeldegeheimnisses][G-10]] law which
+allows the secret services to bypass these constitutional guaranteed
+freedoms.
+
+The best known project of g10^code is probably version 2 of GnuPG,
+which started under the name /NewPG/ as part of the broader /Aegypten/
+project. The main goal of Aegypten was to provide support for S/MIME
+under GNU/Linux and integrate that cleanly with other mail clients,
+most notably KMail. This project was due to a public tender of the
+[[http://www.bsi.de/EN/][BSI]] (German federal office for information security) and awarded to a
+consortium of g10^code, [[https://intevation.de/index.en.html][Intevation]], and [[https://kdab.com][KDAB]]. Another large project
+is [[http://www.gpg4win.org][Gpg4win]] which has its roots in a port of GnuPG-2 to Windows done by
+g10^code as part of a health research project. Another tender awarded
+to the same consortium extended this port to the now mostly used GnuPG
+distribution for Windows.
+
+Now, how viable is it to run a company for the development of free
+security software? Not very good I had to realize: the original plan
+of selling support contracts did not worked out too well due to the
+lack of resources for marketing. Larger development projects raised
+most of the revenues but they are not easy to acquire. In the last
+years we had problems to get new GnuPG related development contracts
+which turned the company into a one-person show by fall 2012. I
+actually planned to shut it down in 2013 and to take a straight coder
+job somewhere. However, as a side effect of Edward Snowden‘s brave
+actions, there was more public demand for privacy tools and thus I
+concluded that it is worth to keep on working on GnuPG.
+
+#+ATTR_HTML: :cellpadding 2
+ | year | profit | wages | n | balance |
+ |------+--------+-------+---+---------|
+ | 2001 | -12000 | 11000 | 2 | 31000 |
+ | 2002 | 3000 | 40000 | 3 | 32000 |
+ | 2003 | -16000 | 26000 | 3 | 35000 |
+ | 2004 | 3000 | 45000 | 4 | 52000 |
+ | 2005 | 0 | 44000 | 4 | 56000 |
+ | 2006 | 2000 | 48000 | 3 | 49000 |
+ | 2007 | 50000 | 57000 | 2 | 99000 |
+ | 2008 | 11000 | 75000 | 3 | 94000 |
+ | 2009 | -23000 | 72000 | 3 | 68000 |
+ | 2010 | 28000 | 74000 | 2 | 78000 |
+ | 2011 | -41000 | 63000 | 2 | 81000 |
+ | 2012 | -16000 | 54000 | 2 | 45000 |
+ | 2013 | -10000 | 32000 | 1 | 44000 |
+ | 2014 | 12000 | 32000 | 1 | 47000 |
+
+The table above is a summary of g10^{code}’s balance sheets (in Euro,
+2014 are estimations). /profit/ gives the annual net profit or loss,
+/wages/ are the gross salary costs for the /n/ employed developers,
+and /balance/ is the balance sheet total. Despite of our low wages we
+accumulated an estimated loss of 9000 Euro over the last 3 years. The
+crowdfunding campaign last year proved that there are many people who
+like to see GnuPG alive and maintained. Despite the huge [[file:20140512-rewards-sent.org][costs]] of the
+campaign it allowed me to keep working on GnuPG and I am confident
+that there will be ways to continue work in 2015.
diff --git a/web/share/site.css b/web/share/site.css
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@@ -519,6 +519,11 @@ span.sansserif {
/* Table related rules as used by org-mode. */
+table {
+ margin-left: 5%;
+}
+
+
.left {
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
@@ -551,6 +556,7 @@ th.right {
td.left {
text-align:left;
+ padding-left: 10px;
}
td.center {
@@ -559,6 +565,7 @@ td.center {
td.right {
text-align:right;
+ padding-right: 10px;
}
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