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If I were to wager a non-crazy, Occam's Razor-compatible bet, I'd say the author had a bad day, saw one too many digs at the quality of their decade-long work,

by Cairn 12y ago

If I were to wager a non-crazy, Occam's Razor-compatible bet, I'd say the author had a bad day, saw one too many digs at the quality of their decade-long work, got pissy, and decided to call it quits. I love popcorn-munching news as much as anyone, but this probably isn't it.

tacotime 12y ago
Then why pour so much work into re-authoring and re-releasing the program for all os's? And why offer such a canned bullshit explanation like the end of the availability of windows xp? All to show the trolls how much they miss truecrypt now that it's gone? I don't think so... anyone can find an old cloned repo/bin. I don't think it's impossible but it doesn't sit right with me that someone who could write/manage a program as objectively beneficial to society as truecrypt could also write such horrid bullshit that stands against every principal of FOSS. That being said, I've witnessed lives torn apart by depression first hand and it can be easy to idealize a person you've never even met so who really knows.
- XorNot 12y ago
  Well, free project by anonymous developers right? At some point the reward metric for that shifts away from your interests. It's never going to be picked up by like, major companies for enterprise-y use since Bitlocker has that market sewn up and it's never been really practical to use with Linux (from what I recall of looking into FDE for my notebook a few times in the past).
msumpter 12y ago
That's been my thinking as well since this came out yesterday. And it kind of makes sense why they modified the license to no longer require attribution, the only thing left in 7.2 is decryption related code, this would allow 3rd parties to distribute derivative works around decrypting legacy volumes (and possibly migrating to other encryption methods). But would stop anyone from creating a fork of earlier versions that still contained the encryption routines.

by Cairn 12y ago

tacotime 12y ago

Then why pour so much work into re-authoring and re-releasing the program for all os's? And why offer such a canned bullshit explanation like the end of the availability of windows xp? All to show the trolls how much they miss truecrypt now that it's gone? I don't think so... anyone can find an old cloned repo/bin. I don't think it's impossible but it doesn't sit right with me that someone who could write/manage a program as objectively beneficial to society as truecrypt could also write such horrid bullshit that stands against every principal of FOSS. That being said, I've witnessed lives torn apart by depression first hand and it can be easy to idealize a person you've never even met so who really knows.

XorNot 12y ago
Well, free project by anonymous developers right? At some point the reward metric for that shifts away from your interests. It's never going to be picked up by like, major companies for enterprise-y use since Bitlocker has that market sewn up and it's never been really practical to use with Linux (from what I recall of looking into FDE for my notebook a few times in the past).

msumpter 12y ago

That's been my thinking as well since this came out yesterday. And it kind of makes sense why they modified the license to no longer require attribution, the only thing left in 7.2 is decryption related code, this would allow 3rd parties to distribute derivative works around decrypting legacy volumes (and possibly migrating to other encryption methods). But would stop anyone from creating a fork of earlier versions that still contained the encryption routines.