gnupg 1.0.7 compiled for Windows

[Ed Suominen]

Sorry for being blunt, but the attitude Eugen Leitl expressed (shared by 
many others) is one of the biggest turnoffs to "outsiders" now looking 
at the free software community as an alternative to the Redmond, 
Washington "beast." Which is doing more to get free software in front of 
the actual *users* and business decisionmakers: (1) telling users who 
don't know (or care) what a compiler is to just go build it themselves, 
or (2) distributing the binaries for use on an OS that (for better or 
for worse) people are actually *using*?

Perhaps it's good to remember that the ultimate destination for all 
software, free or not, is on the computer of an *end user*. That person, 
in all likelihood, doesn't much care what Richard Stallman thinks or 
consider Microsoft inherently evil. He or she is going to switch to free 
software (and thus help the movement crawl out of the pizza-stained 
developer's den) because it has some benefit, in costs or features.

And I say all this as the author of both an open-source software package 
and an OSI-approved license for that software.

I guess the flames will start now, but I felt it needed to be said...

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>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:37:59 +0200
>From: Martin Schoch <maschoch@compuserve.com>
>Reply-To: Martin Schoch <maschoch@compuserve.com>
>To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
>CC: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
>Subject: Re: gnupg 1.0.7 compiled for Windows
>
>On Sunday, September 1, 2002 1:32:09 PM you wrote:
>
>EL> This is most likely because Windows is a less relevant support
>EL> platform.
>
>???
>
>EL> You can always compile it yourself, you know.
>
>If you have got all the development tools on your machine...
>
>  
>
> -- Best regards, Martin Schoch mailto:maschoch@compuserve.com
>