Responding to msg by unicorn@polaris.mindport.net (Black Unicorn) on Sun, 17 Sep 6:39 PM
If some other 'punks want to get together and fund such projects, I will participate. However, putting the burden of financing this venture (which will have no immediate economic return, as I will support no venture which does not result in fully public software)
What are the prospects of privacy-enhancing programing funded by contributors for non-commercial, non-governmental, "fully public software?" I would tithe, modestly but durably, to such work if I believed the promise. They call me Ishmael Sixpack. John Gilmore's (and others'?) underwriting toad is impressive. Along with the voluntary (?) effort of Hugh Daniels (and others, I don't know how toad survives). What else might be done cypherpunk-wise if material resources were available? And under what conditions and arrangements? The discussion of Mixmaster commercialization is instructive. And Julf's and the other remailers survivability and longevity in the face of attacks. How could the contributions be made without contaminating the product? No joke. Or, are only individually initiated and self-funded programs trustworthy, when all is said and done? And no planned program as rewarding as the eclectic irregulated. And bartering and bickering and rending and mending the only reputable method of exchange of the tumultuous souk.