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"Note that despite GnuPG carries an FSF copyright notice, they never funded the development or hosting costs." https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html



I saw that as well and couldn't help but wonder what fraction of their costs are development and what fraction are hosting. After all, there are free hosting alternatives for open source projects, e.g., GitHub, so if hosting is a significant cost, why not simply eliminate it?




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