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[Steven Alligood]

blr at robertsr.us wrote:
>> Corey Edwards wrote:
>> whereas PGP sprung up from the
>> open source community to encrypt stuff, and was later added into email
>> as a nifty way to handle email encryption.
>>     
>
> Erm, that's not the way I remember it.  PGP is commercial software
> developed by Phil Zimmerman.  GPG came along much later.
>
> Barry Roberts
>
>   

You are right; I misrepresented that.

PGP was not "open source" although the source code was available to 
download and compile, use, etc (most projects back then didn't worry as 
much about legalities and licensing, etc).  It later became a closed 
commercial product, which pushed the community to write GPG.

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