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einpoklum on Dec 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect...

But can't you just build an MSI installer from sources, then distribute that to users? Like you can build .deb/.rpm or flatpak packages on Linux?

tgsovlerkhgsel on Dec 28, 2021 | [–]

Without the government certification, that's worthless if you need a certified solution. Hence, those companies will pay.

NotEvil on Dec 28, 2021 | [–]

You can, but then you won't have any support and any integration stuff the commercial one might

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