If you touch your software enough does it become hardware?
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by Hehulk » January 24th, 2006, 11:13
ah, nice. Cheers Woo
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by Rydis » January 24th, 2006, 11:54
spoodie wrote: Rydis wrote: Which is why God invented PGP.
Wasn't that Phil Zimmermann?
*geeks out*
Yeah. Then he sold his soul to Viacrypt. Bastard. And then to Network Associates. Double bastard.
Though you can still get free pgp from places like:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/pg ... #ckt-about
Best thing about PGP though was PGP disk.
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by Woo Elephant Yeah » January 24th, 2006, 13:13
To be honest, if I made something that useful, and a big company offered me a fortune to take ownership of it, I would sale it too
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by deject » January 24th, 2006, 16:06
Woo Elephant Yeah wrote: To be honest, if I made something that useful, and a big company offered me a fortune to take ownership of it, I would sale it too
this x 1000
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by Rydis » January 24th, 2006, 16:16
Yes but if you started out with the intent of providing free, secure encryption to the masses and then caved in and flogged it, I'd think you were a corporate whore!
Note: I'd do exactly the same, but then I *am* a corporate whore.
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by deject » January 24th, 2006, 18:10
The only reason I'm not currently a sell-out is that I have nothing to sell.