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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by bubblethink on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:20AM (#14634498)
How are the Linux Foundation's funds allocated, and how much say does Linus have in it ? Most of this boils down to lack of money and attribution for grsec. Why didn't the Linux Foundation or Linus try to officially fund grsec to upstream their patches ? KSPP is still costing money. How much would it have cost to pay grsec directly instead ?
Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by dm319 on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:49AM (#14634601)
As far as I understand that is the opposite of how it works. The linux foundation was set up to receive funds from big business contributors - like Intel, Microsoft etc, who have an interest in the continuation of the linux kernel and wish to pay for jobs which didn't have a source of funding (i.e. Linus's job and other maintainer) and who wished to remain non-partisan. So these companies provide both code and money. That money isn't meant to be kicked back to profit-making companies as far as I understand.
Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by KGIII on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:30AM (#14635332)
Also, probably because grsec's code doesn't meet the standards. By almost all accounts, it pretty much sucks. I am unqualified to opine, but I trust the opinions of who are qualified - by being the people who try to implement it.