End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced?

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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Re:Where have all Microsoft conspiracy theorists g

[E_elven]

I took the time to respond to your post because I'm still waiting for K5 to load the front page. I type real slow.
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Microsoft, Baystar and SCO are connected, if we assume the grapevine is correct about Red Hat being the sponsor. It's no secret that those have played a big role in RH's latest endeavours.
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Re:Additional information (broken links)

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PDF] SELinux and grsecurity: A Case Study Comparing Linux Security ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML ... can allow or deny access to an object [1]). Both grsecurity and SELinux will respect
DAC if DAC permits less access than the respective MAC implementation. ...
www.cs.virginia.edu/ ~jcg8f/GrsecuritySELinuxCaseStudy.pdf - Similar pages