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I'm more concerned he might mismanage the money. He seems like a really nice guy but seems to have no great business/finance perspective. Still, he is free to d
by alecco 12y ago
I'm more concerned he might mismanage the money. He seems like a really nice guy but seems to have no great business/finance perspective. Still, he is free to do whatever the fuck he wants with my small donation. I feel like I owe him a lot more than that.
- sumitviii 12y agoWhy does he need a great business perspective to spend something which is nowhere close to what companies using his hard work are earning?
- avn2109 12y agoThis. The article says Google and Facebook each gave him 50 big ones. Which != 0, but I can't help but thinking that's like .00001 seconds of Google profits, given to a project that is probably on the critical path of >50% of their business.
- tobinfricke 12y agoGoogle's profit was $13G in 2013, according to Wikipedia. Thus $50,000 amounts to about 2 minutes of their profit stream. You are off by seven orders of magnitude... More to the point, how do you figure that GPG is on the "critical path" of 50% of Google's business?
- Estragon 12y ago> More to the point, how do you figure that GPG is on the > "critical path" of 50% of Google's business? Anywhere they're using a debian-based linux distribution, they're using gpg in the package management.
- tobinfricke 12y agoThat's true, but it says nothing about how difficult it would be to replace.
- Estragon 12y agoDo you have any idea what be involved in that replacement?
- _ak 12y agoIt's not like the first time he's handling money like that the GnuPG development. In the past, he received two separate grants for exactly that by the German government, and he even employed developers for some time.