Gnome 2.18 will wound Microsoft badly.

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at mikefedyk.com
Thu Mar 1 18:32:34 UTC 2007


Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> In 2006, 95% of Fortune's 100 are using PGP and 75% are in Fortune's 
> Global 100.
> 
> With Seahorse now being accepted in Gnome 2.18, I see that it will wound 
> Microsoft badly.
> While Microsoft doesn't have PGP encryption applications of their own, 
> PGP in Linux and Gnome is much
> easier to setup with Seahorse than ever before.
> 
> This is one of the most important "killer apps" Linux and Gnome have, 
> with companies all over the world
> have a great interest in PGP cryptography. Gnome's Groupware Suite, 
> Evolution has long been using PGP cryptography operations, and now with 
> Seahorse, it will "just works" pretty well, out-of-the-box.

As a gnome user I'm happy we have seahorse now.  But hearing 2003 call 
from the distant past:

http://developer.kde.org/~kgpg/




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