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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by drzaiusapelord on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:21PM (#9006199)
Because this article is misleading. Apparantly, Koch has been subsidized by the german government thus felt no need to be used the FSFE. Secondly, gpg isn't really used for enterprise email, SMIME is or commercial php.

There's a history of Koch that is pretty ugly. He tried to start a consulting company with said government money and seems to have a "pay me to fix bugs" attitude. This breathless "omg must donate now" sentiment dominant here is highly questionable.

gpg should be under and funded by FSFE not via begdonations and german government funding.

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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by skj on Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:30PM (#9007114)
I have that "pay me to fix bugs" attitude, too. After all, my chosen profession is software developer and one of the things my employer pays me to do is fix bugs.
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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by reiichiroh on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:57PM (#9006417)
I'm curious to know if there's any proof for this?
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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by jordigh on Friday February 06, 2015 @07:40AM (#9008703)
> seems to have a "pay me to fix bugs" attitude

There's nothing wrong with that attitude. There's no reason why he should be doing work without pay.

If people send him bug fixes and he refuses to merge them, that's something else. But he doesn't have to work for nothing. I assume that whatever money he may be receiving from the German government may be used for other kinds of developments, not bugs that don't affect him.

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Re:Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going... by harkyns_castle on Friday February 06, 2015 @03:14AM (#9008108)
Yeah I'd be keen to learn more of the nefarious stuff, if it exists, in which case the donation gets pulled back.
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