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Autor: Arnt Karlsen
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Temat: Re: [DNG] grsecurity ripoff by Google, with Linus' approval WAS: I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:06:36 -0700, Rick wrote in message
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> Quoting Arnt Karlsen (arnt@???):
>
> > ..I may have missed their complaint in todays research, the common
> > "cred" or "credit" compaint I saw in my 11 years at Groklaw, was the
> > BSD-style cred fly-by screen "not being shown", which may have
> > formed a bias between my ears. ;o)
>
> My understanding of the recurring complaint Spengler and friends had
> against Wind River, Google, VeriFone, Intel/ARM, etc. was that they
> used old grsecurity/Pax 'stable' patchsets (sometimes with backported
> fixes) applied against old, buggy kernels, thereby creating the
> impression in downstream users' minds that grsecurity is buggy and
> rather moldy. (As I said earlier, the cynical interpretation of this
> complaint is that they wanted to get paid.)


..aye, I saw your cynical interpretation, that getting-paid bit was
the other/implied half of the "cred" complaint I saw at Groklaw.

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