![]() ![]() In fact, there are donation pages right on the linked site. Including, notably, the elephant in the room: Mozilla. Other foundations, however, do release commercially viable software. No business will ever be successful - ever - if the core offering is poorly supported.Īt this point, you may counter that GnuPG is not a business - fair point! In that case, it is a charity - but this does not change the fact that the software it is releasing is not a commercially viable product and it will not become one with this level of support. I spend a substantial amount of time helping people attach business models to software, and 'free' is one of those models - it can absolutely be rigorous, and you can absolutely build big, successful businesses off of software that is offered without any user cost. What I can tell you is that, on this count, you are very unlikely to persuade me. This is my way of saying that I have a lot of respect for your opinion and also trying to also express that while I am sure my tone is coming off as someone wry or sarcastic, I do not mean to be bluntly disrespectful. ![]() Right, and the point is that this gift will not achieve mass adoption unless there is better support.Įdit: I checked your profile - I will likely be getting a bunch of your recommended reading material, and we clearly have a -lot- of interests in common.
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