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This presentation is tasteless and totally takes any seriousness that should be related to making and promoting an OpenSSL replacement. I personally can't take it seriously and I would recommend hackers to think about what image their presentation and design conveys.
Sounds like they are doing excellent work here but it is a pity the license can never be GPL compatible.
> but it is a pity the license can never be GPL compatible
This presentation is tasteless and totally takes any seriousness that should be related to making and promoting an OpenSSL replacement. I personally can't take it seriously and I would recommend hackers to think about what image their presentation and design conveys.
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The software is meant to generate content for an X11 viewer/presentation app using a simple text-based markup as input. The HTML is an export. It's not what the software was really designed to produce. That said, I don't know if the quality of the slides is really any better in the native viewer.
That's not really an excuse for using jpg instead of png for a bunch of text.
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It's a shame there's not even a tiny bit of JS in the pages. Being able to press right or down to advance would be nice. Though I like how lightweight it all this. I suspect the software is old and the link hasn't been updated in its source.
Not only that, but the slides are JPG with horrible artifacts, and the text is JPG too, making it look bad and not be compatible with screen readers.
This presentation is tasteless and totally takes any seriousness that should be related to making and promoting an OpenSSL replacement. I personally can't take it seriously and I would recommend hackers to think about what image their presentation and design conveys.
Sounds like they are doing excellent work here but it is a pity the license can never be GPL compatible.
> but it is a pity the license can never be GPL compatible Why? What are the practical downsides?
I'm curious as to their funding goal. Sounds like a couple salaries for a year or two. It almost seems appropriate to test the waters here with a KickStarter. OpenSSL is pervasive in technology, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were able to achieve even somewhat lofty donations from a combination of both individuals and private organizations.
A Kickstarter, or similar (there are open source tools to create kickstarter like campaigns, as well) automates the small-time contributors like me into a form that is useful to an organization like this.