OT
BConley@checkfree.com
BConley@checkfree.com
Mon Mar 31 19:27:02 2003
Let's not forget, GnuPG is used commercially as well as privately. I work
for a company that does business with a large number of other large
companies and we recently began recommending GnuPG as an alternative to
commercial PGP products. In our eyes as well as theirs, GnuPG is very
much a product, just as PGP is a product, and I find it distasteful at
best to direct clients of ours to gnupg.org to be confronted with an
anti-war political statement. These clients are people, some of whom may
have loved ones involved in the conflict in Iraq, and because we referred
them to the site, it is a direct reflection on us. We should not have to
provide a disclaimer to our clients that they may be exposed to political
statements that may be offensive to them. Like it or not, the commercial
use of this product does place a burden of professionalism on the
developers of gnupg. Frankly, if I had known that this type of
politicization would come with GnuPG, I never would have implemented it in
our organization.
Burns
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Please respond to
burns
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> I don't know if the gnupg.org website was hacked but I have to
state that
> such
> emotional political statements have no business on such a
website. Such
> statements have nothing to do with the GnuPG product. Let's keep
things
> professional.
>
If it were a "product", that would be true. But, it's not a
product. It's volunteer work done to preserve a source of good
opensource software. I think that people who give away the results
of their own hard work, don't need to apologize for using their
soapbox for other things once in awhile.
Randy
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