gnupg 1.0.7 compiled for Windows

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 01-Sep-2002/22:50 -0700, Ed Suominen <general@eepatents.com> wrote:
>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*?

PGP is back in business. Windows users can download binaries from
<http://www.pgp.com/>.

The few small things I've written and given away were tools I created to
scratch an itch. Under the circumstances, I couldn't care less for the
needs of users of other platforms. I didn't write tools for them, I wrote
tools for myself which I chose to share. Not every Free Software or Open
Source programmer cares about reaching users of other platforms, and I
don't see a problem with that. Some businesses have a niche market that
they cater to. They're not trying to take over the world, they just want
to serve a certain set of customers. There is nothing inherently wrong
with that.

That said, the GnuPG team does care about Windows users. The problem is
that creating Windows binaries is inconvenient for the core members of the
team because they do not develop on Windows. They have asked before for a
volunteer who was willing to be responsible for that aspect of
development.

>Perhaps it's good to remember that the ultimate destination for all 
>software, free or not, is on the computer of an *end user*.

Really? Apache. BIND. Sendmail. Samba. I could go on, but you get the
point. Even tools like GnuPG are becoming popular on servers as part of an
ecommerce solution. There are markets other than the desktop/laptop/palm
of an end user.

Tony
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