[rogers12]

> This sort of thing concerns me. So if Wolf has a change of heart, suffers some sort of financial catastrophe, etc., then... the project just dies, and any project depending on them for a significant portion of their funding has a crisis?

> Still, though, privacy-wise: why should I trust this guy? I like what he says on the website, but I've never heard of him, and don't really know anything about him.

Do you prefer to use tech presented by opaque committees with institutional funding, but only if they also consist of people you're acquainted with?

[kelnos]

That's quite the straw man you've constructed there. Please don't put words in my mouth. That's not what I said, or intended.

Try the HN guidelines on for size: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."