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Zimmermann Suggests Freeing PGP Source

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 2, 2002 @08:41AM 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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Umm. by MisterBlister · 2002-07-02 08:52 · Score: 1, Redundant

Maybe he should have thought about that before selling it?
Considering Network Associates isn't developing it further, I somewhat see his point, but I don't see how he really has a say in the matter.