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Zimmermann Suggests Freeing PGP Source

Posted by timothy on from the like-the-wind dept.

broody writes "NewsForge has an interesting article detailing Phillip R Zimmermann's lament at selling PGP. Since he cannot afford to buy it back outright, he is pushing for Network Associates to 'open source' it. Well, the GUI and SDK anyway. I'll say this, he's an interesting little capitalist."

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  1. Phil, Please Join Us! by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Phil,

    We'd really like you to join the work on GnuPG, and on GUI projects like GNOME. I think it would be most productive to write off the PGP code base and continue your work on the existing Free Software projects. We've gotten most of the hard work done already.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.