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Somebody who has been following TrueCrypt closely seem to think the project lost momentum and they just decided to call it quit.Their comment is on slashdot and

Somebody who has been following TrueCrypt closely seem to think the project lost momentum and they just decided to call it quit.Their comment is on slashdot and the link is: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5212985&cid=47115785 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5212985&cid=47115785

Spearchucker 12y ago
Makes the most sense yet. The question that was asked in response to that Slashdot post was why anyone would choose to quit the way they did (unprofessional and so on), and this doesn't sway me. If I lost my star dev and couldn't follow the code myself I might (speculation, as ever) well be petulant enough for this mess. There may be any number of factors behind it, ranging from animosity within the team to fear or self-doubt.
- mjolk 12y ago
  I don't see this as particularly unprofessional or petulant. The owner/manager of the project didn't want to keep maintaining it and is redirecting users to an alternative that will work for almost all use cases. As of last month, there were reported flaws in TrueCrypt and there's nothing that forces a maintainer of a free project to keep going. I'm left almost a little annoyed that the conversation isn't "RIP TrueCrypt project, thank you goes out to the maintainers for helping people feel more secure for years."
  - Spearchucker 12y ago
    Not saying it is (unprofessional or petulant). I'm saying these are but two possibilities. Of many.
  - unfamiliar 12y ago
    You can't just post an announcement like that in the current climate of suspicion and expect everyone to just ignore the possible implications.
    - mjolk 12y ago
      Alright, I'll play. How long of an explanation are the users of a free service entitled to receive before the maintainer can happily go his/her way without follow-ups? Development of Truecrypt stopped, and as it's open-source, someone else could keep hacking away on it.
      - unfamiliar 12y ago
        Entitled to receive? None. Read my post again. I'm saying that they should have expected that the announcement would be received with suspicion.

Spearchucker 12y ago

Makes the most sense yet. The question that was asked in response to that Slashdot post was why anyone would choose to quit the way they did (unprofessional and so on), and this doesn't sway me. If I lost my star dev and couldn't follow the code myself I might (speculation, as ever) well be petulant enough for this mess. There may be any number of factors behind it, ranging from animosity within the team to fear or self-doubt.

mjolk 12y ago
I don't see this as particularly unprofessional or petulant. The owner/manager of the project didn't want to keep maintaining it and is redirecting users to an alternative that will work for almost all use cases. As of last month, there were reported flaws in TrueCrypt and there's nothing that forces a maintainer of a free project to keep going. I'm left almost a little annoyed that the conversation isn't "RIP TrueCrypt project, thank you goes out to the maintainers for helping people feel more secure for years."
- Spearchucker 12y ago
  Not saying it is (unprofessional or petulant). I'm saying these are but two possibilities. Of many.
- unfamiliar 12y ago
  You can't just post an announcement like that in the current climate of suspicion and expect everyone to just ignore the possible implications.
  - mjolk 12y ago
    Alright, I'll play. How long of an explanation are the users of a free service entitled to receive before the maintainer can happily go his/her way without follow-ups? Development of Truecrypt stopped, and as it's open-source, someone else could keep hacking away on it.
    - unfamiliar 12y ago
      Entitled to receive? None. Read my post again. I'm saying that they should have expected that the announcement would be received with suspicion.