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I've always found it weird that de Raadt is admired for being abrasive, and Torvalds is pilloried. I've always wondered, if the grsec people are such believers
by vacri 9y ago
I've always found it weird that de Raadt is admired for being abrasive, and Torvalds is pilloried.
I've always wondered, if the grsec people are such believers of 'security above all else', why they just don't work with OpenBSD instead.
- Tomte 9y agoLower hanging fruit and much larger potential client base in Linux. grsecurity are a business, after all.
- qbrass 9y ago>I've always found it weird that de Raadt is admired for being abrasive, and Torvalds is pilloried. It's because most of the people who get upset about Linus, have never heard of Theo. The ones who have, tend to think he's worse.
- PhantomGremlin 9y agoI've always found it weird that de Raadt is admired for being abrasive, and Torvalds is pilloried. Theo isn't universally loved. There was the time he was "pilloried" by none other than Linus himself, who said "the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys". The Internet is forever. https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296 https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296
- davidgerard 9y agoUntil someone says "literally everyone uses ssh, you should donate" then watch the excuses fly.
- vacri 9y ago... because the linux kernel and git are awash with donations from users?
- jwilk 9y ago> de Raadt is admired for being abrasive [citation needed]