OT: PGP, commercial product vs opensource stuff - viability/usability

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:24:00PM -0500):

| We are about to *buy* PGP. Reasons... simple, we were told if
| we gather the source and make our own version for either SCO or
| Windows... we will have "limited to no success".  Exact words.
|
| The particular partner we have chosen has specified PGP and ftp, so
| unfortunately, should you rush to suggest some other scenario that
| works, don't bother, we already have. It's this, or nothing.

I've not used either PGP or GnuPG, but quoting from www.gnupg.org:

	GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP.

So why wouldn't you go down that route?

-- 
JP