cipherfunk dead

[eeried]

I've searched on this forum but there doesn't seem any news about ciperphunk which seems to be dead:
http://64.71.152.24/index.html

If this isn't a hoax, Paul Drain's had it and no wonder -- serious health and financial problems.

This is rather sad

[Jussi Kukkonen]

You have an additional http there -- which on Firefox seems to mean one ends up on w3.org...

Anyway, I wish him strength with his disability and can understand the frustration with financial problems, but I still think he overreacted on the GPL issue. I agree with Mathew Garrett in this case: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/65927.html

I do agree with cipherpunk in his suggestion to the community: "go and thank your local developers...they deserve your support and your heartfelt thanks too."

EDIT: by the way, you could have selected a better forum for this thread :)

[rattlerviper]

:( all that neads to be said.

[Brunellus]

I note that the source has been released and is likely going to be available via the terms of the GPL. So too bad the project is now orphaned, but the license should still be valid.

[raldz]

he was threatened by Philipp Kern.. at the bottom of the page, he wrote:




To Philipp Kern:

Who said: 'Please follow this request (it's not that hard), otherwise I will forward this mail to LKML. Call it a threat, I call it advise.'

Personally, I couldn't care less what you call it, or where you forward your correspondence -- you are the person that broke my 'camel's back', so to speak.



I guess that was the last straw that drove him away from the project.. Philip Kern is a member of the Ubuntu Team, and the threat may have got into his head thinking.. "All my years of hard work for free.. and this is what I get?"

[DoctorMO]

Such a shame, I hope I managed to hope the complete ignorance of my suroundings that has stoped be getting bitter so far.

Come on yer turkey breasted jibblets!

[deanlinkous]

I don't understand how anything that was said was a threat. Yea, the cop threatened me the other day when he said "you know you aren't allowed to park here so please correct the situation or else I will write you a ticket" so I blew up my car and shot the officer and went home - did I over react?

Here is the other note that was sent...
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/polite_note.txt

[Perfect Storm]

http://www.mepislovers.com/forums/index.php?topic=1435.msg10132#msg10132

[jdong]

Sure I feel sorry for the guy and his medical/financial situation, but at the end of the day I breathe a sigh of relief that the GPL was upheld.

[TravisNewman]

its sad and all, but it comes down to what's legal and what isn't. What he was doing wasn't legal, nobody threatened him they just asked him to fix the situation. All he would have had to do is send the code to someone and ask them to host it, or make a rapidshare link or something. Anything really. There's no way it would cost him that much money to get the code out.

If I came home from work one day and noticed my door had been broken into and saw that my next door neighbor had my TV sitting on his porch, if I went and asked to have my TV back, would that be a threat?