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

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mark Luljak propounded (on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:15:06PM -0500):
| John,
| 
| True, I've helped people use it on SuSE and other linux systems as a
| complete solution for encrypting to/from ftp.  However, GPG is GPG.  If
| it executes without crashing, and the same options are compiled in,
| the platform makes no difference, even between different endian platforms. 
| 
| I personally use it on both Linux and Solaris all the time.
| Interchangeably, and they're opposite endian to boot.
| 
| I just tried it on Bob's SCO 5.6 box to get the version (something that
| makes me think it's either distributed already with 5.6, or it comes
| with SkunkWare, as Bob doesn't tend to compile things like that (to my
| knowledge).  Bob, care to comment on how it got there?

There's no such numbering as "5.6" for any SCO product.
Bob is running OpenServer 6.0.0, and gpg got there with all the rest of
the gwlibs package, installed at boot time.

-- 
JP