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TLS certificates are free now and that is unlikely ever to change again.

You stated that it wasn't a problem before they were free:

"I don't think money was ever the big deal in the real world that IETF people thought it was, but it sure drove a lot of dumb mailing list posts"

I am pointing out that I disagree, it was a very big deal and it's why I created Let's Encrypt.

I think Lets Encrypt is a big deal. I think making TLS certificates free is a big deal in terms of getting people to deploy HTTPS. I don't think they're a big deal in terms of getting people to use some other protocol like DNSSEC instead. Sorry, I worded that imprecisely.

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