[Wylug-discuss] GPG maintainer needs money - quick!

[Darren Menachem Drapkin]

I have enquired into this situation over the past few days and it seems 
that this particular instance of wanting something for nothing is now 
over.
However, the general problem with us wanting zero-priced professional 
software is not going away entirely.
Most of us want something for nothing if we can get away with it. This 
makes us vulnerable to the unprincipled wad squad, who are not just 
Microsoft, as some of you suppose.

On Sunday 08 Feb 2015 17:12:50 Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Darren Menachem Drapkin
> 
> <darren.drapkin at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > I think that we should find a way of verifying this and discussing 
what to
> > do about it at the meeting.
> > The hardest thing about Linux seems to be, paying for it.
> 
> Not sure if I agree with that...
> 
> Crypto has peculiar troubles with maintainers - very few volunteers
> are capable but very many think they are...
> 
> In general, free software maintainers seem to prefer not to go down
> the commercial route, and particularly continental Europe seems to
> struggle with it's ecosystem of FOSS companies
> 
> More broadly, judging by the people I know, the ratio of paid
> committers to unpaid volunteers seems to have radically reversed 
over
> the last 20 years. Perhaps we've just all grown old...
> 
> Robert

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Darren Drapkin