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

[Bob Stockler]

John Esak wrote (on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:45:34PM -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?
| 
| As I said... I am gun shy from a time when buying Zmodem meant the version
| you bought would not work properly (or at all) with the zmodem you could get
| anywhere. Eentually, (like a year or so!) and it got fixed... sort of... but
| in the meantime, one struggeled, or just gave up and used one or the other.

I may be wrong about this, but as I recall, the guy who wrote
Zmodem weighed, at that time, more than the total weight of
Jean-Pierre Radley and John Esak as they stand today (which
is a little bit more than it was then).

Have I got the right guy?  He was a complete dork and delivered
a sucker punch,

If I've got the right guy (I don't remember his name), I got on
an airplane with him one time (he took up two seats) and was
concerned whether we'd be able to take off or not.

I'd take Mark's advice and got with the free one.

Bob

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