[nathan-muir]

This feels like "WorldVision" for programmers. The wealthy pouring support on the forgotten, decrying the unjust conditions, only to forget about them and return to their normal lives.

Unlike the poor children of the world - Koch's decisions are wholly responsible for his current predicament.

The "market" doesn't care about individuals like Koch, and he chose to continue despite his efforts not being reciprocated/acknowledged.

I'd like to say that Koch should have abandoned the project, and if the market saw that maintenance/development of GPG was important, it would have happened.

However, it's not a perfect world - and there are probably plenty of pieces of critical software installed on our systems that are no longer maintained.

Would GPG have become one of these unmaintained codebases had Koch acted in his own self interest?

Or, would have another organisation/individual funded someone else to maintain and develop it?