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LWN on the Patent Encumbrence of SELinux

Posted by chrisd on from the uh-oh-not-this-again dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "LWN has a story about patents in SELinux. The article says: "Much of the actual work in the implementation of SELinux was done by Secure Computing Corporation (SCC). SCC, in its implementation of SELinux, used a technology that it calls type enforcement. As it turns out, SCC has a patent on this technology." Sigh.

2 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Re:My IANAL conclusion by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but a lot of people dont read anon comments, or browse at a higher rating so would miss it. Relying on moderators doing anything right is a mistake - they only mod up stuff thats posted within minutes of the article appearing.

  2. Re:My IANAL conclusion by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but a lot of people dont read anon comments, or browse at a higher rating so would miss it.

    That's fine if you want to read Slashdot that way. But then, please DON'T moderate!!

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