[OT?] No more financial support for GnuPG

[John A. Martin]

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>>>>> "wk" =3D=3D Werner Koch
>>>>> "Re: [OT?] No more financial support for GnuPG"
>>>>>  Wed, 14 May 2003 20:41:05 +0200

    wk> On Tue, 13 May 2003 22:46:14 +0200, Juergen Fenn said:
    >> According to German IT news service heise.de the German Federal
    >> Government will no longer sponsor development of GnuPG:

    wk> The big advantages of Free Software are the avoidance of
    wk> vendor lock-in, the in general better standard compliance, the
    wk> abstain of unneeded gadgets for marketing reasons and the huge
    wk> base of valuable testers and other helpers.

For dramatic evidence on the above, see Bruce Schneier in today's
Cryptogram: Encryption and Wiretapping,
<http://www.counterpane.com./crypto-gram-0305.html#1>.

        jam


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