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.'"

Comments

Re:So what?

[benh999]

It sounds like what he wanted was employment. Being able to make a living off of a hobby is a lofty and unrealistic goal.

pardon my ignorance

[novakane007]

I first heard baout it when it showed up in the kernel config menu. i wasn't sure what it was so I left it alone. To this day I've never quite understood what it did. I gather it was for hardening the kernel? I can't say I'm going to miss it since I never saw any use for it.

Re:I wonder if

[iminplaya]

Hmmm...So asking a legitimate question, attempting to find an answer, and actually generating a couple of perfectly reasoned responses is flaimbait now. Do I smell an agenda here? Nah...couldn't be. Fascinating. Now, THIS post can be considered Flaimbait, Off topic, or Troll. Knock yourself out. I'll make sure to write a nice pro-copyright/war post next time to get back into your good graces. I'd call you (mod) an idiot, but I'm the idiot here, and considering who calls me that, I wear the name proudly.

Re:Smells like a lawsuit

[soulhuntre]

Actually it sounds a lot like free software...

1) Build program
2) Get everyone to use it
3) Cry poverty and threaten to go away if you don't get $$$
4) Profit (in this case defined as not having to get real work)

Hell, they even have an answer to the ??? part.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people in free software seem surprised that development costs money. Gee... maybe thats why some companies charge for software!