"Core Infrastructure Initiative has been funded by 19 big corps( $1.9 mil per year) and organized by Linux foundation. KSPP was funded by CII in the begining"

"Core Infrastructure Initiative has been funded by 19 big corps( $1.9 mil per year) and organized by Linux foundation. KSPP was funded by CII in the begining" That $1.9 million is for the whole CII. According to the CII annual report for 2016 (https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/sites/cii/files/cii_annualreport_2016_fnl_digital.pdf https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/sites/cii/files/cii_annua...), CII provided $80,000 in funding to support Emese Revfy and David Windsor on GCC plugins. $80,000 in funding isn't exactly going to pay for all of grsecurity to be successfully upstreamed overnight. Emese and David have been doing fantastic work, and I'm really, really glad that CII has provided funding for them, but CII is only providing project-based funding for specific work items, not a continuous stream of money to fund the KSPP. Seems a bit unfair to criticise the KSPP on these grounds... [disclosure: I've sent the occasional minor patch to kernel-hardening in my capacity as an employee of IBM who sponsor the CII, opinions my own, I don't know anything at all about our CII funding]