Re: [Duplicity-talk] rsync.net "duplicity pricing" and (modest) contribution to duplicity development

[edgar . soldin]

On 21.07.2015 18:19, rsync.net wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> duplicity has been a fantastic tool for our customers at rsync.net who want 
> encryption at-rest in addition to the in-flight encryption they get from SSH. 
>  I suspect we have 500+ customers who use duplicity as their primary backup 
> mechanism rsync.net cloud storage.
> 
> We'd like to serve more customers like that - clueful, unix-based and 
> security minded - so we are offering a "duplicity friends" rate for our cloud 
> storage of 4 cents per gigabyte-month.[1][2][3]
> 
> -----
> 
> Unrelated to this, we would also like to repeat our original $500 
> contribution to the duplicity project that we made in 2007.  At that time, 
> there was no maintainer and new versions were very slow to be released. Since 
> then, Kenneth Loafman has been maintaining the project and development has 
> been regular and healthy.  We trust Ken to distribute, or use, these funds to 
> further this development.
> 

thanks! definitely Ken has earned it for keeping the project going for _years_ 
now. perhaps we can even use the money or part of it to offer a bounty for a 
specific area we feel needs urgent attention. i will drop a line into our 
duplicity team mailer.

thanks again.. ede/duply.net