FW: Inquiry

[Owen Blacker]

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Werner Koch wrote (2001-10-16 T 17:35 +0200):
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> The reason for the existence of SDAs are probably due to the costs
> of most proprietary software (e.g PGP).  The GNU projects provides a
> way to download GnuPG without any cost and furthermore you are free
> to study, check, modify or redistribute this software.

To be fair, there are plenty of other reasons for SDAs -- I think
they're great for sending information to people who I don't think would
be able to install PGP or GnuPG.  And some people aren't able to install
software on their systems.

They can be useful.  That's not to say that GnuPG should support (or
emulate) them, of course, which is a separate argument completely  :)


O x
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