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End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced?

Posted by simoniker on from the future-not-so-secure dept.

vrtk writes "I received this minutes ago, from the grsecurity mailing list, also displayed on the official site for the open-source security project: 'Beginning today, May 31, 2004, development of grsecurity will cease. On June 7, the website, forums, mailing list, and CVS will be shut down. Due to a sponsor unexpectedly dropping sponsorship of grsecurity while continually promising payment, I began the summer in debt and had to borrow money from family to pay for food. If none of the companies that depend on grsecurity, some of them being very large, are able to sponsor the project, grsecurity will cease to exist. I am not looking for paypal donations at this point, unless those that donate do so with the recognition that despite their donation, grsecurity may still never be returning.'"

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  1. Damn shame by darth_MALL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chalk up another boot to the nuts for the little guy. Good luck to them in the future :(

  2. Do what all FOSS developers do. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Support yourself by selling grsecurity tshirts and coffee mugs.

    1. Re:Do what all FOSS developers do. by nkh · · Score: 4, Funny
      I tried to live
      off OSS development
      and all I got was this
      lousy T-shirt!
  3. Re:Open source by skraps · · Score: 4, Funny
    Just wait some days till many firms and thousand of users will step up and offer support for such a usefull product. We'll talk again then, about the open source business model, my friend.
    Seriously, you guys should just collect your arguments into a list and then refer to them by number. It would save typing, and my time re-reading the same old re-hashed arguments.
    --
    Karma: -2147483648 (Mostly affected by integer overflow)
  4. Re:Maybe he should just GET A JOB then! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't. He's not Indian.

  5. My advice to the developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently you have not learned all the steps of OSS development.

    You have successfully completed two stages:
    1. Develop free software.
    2. Run out of money.

    And you quit at this point forgetting about the third step.

    3. Launch a massive copyright-infringement patent-violation lawsuit against IBM and pay lawyers with stock.

  6. Insult to injury by PsychoKiller · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only does he run out of money, he gets a slashdotting too. :(