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> Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't demand free work of us in our free time? seems an odd line, but is there some context for the non-Linux person on what is go
by cyphar 9y ago
> Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't demand free work of us in our free time? seems an odd line, but is there some context for the non-Linux person on what is going on?
Spender (and PaXTeam) has consistently claimed for many years that although he owns a software company whose sole product is a kernel patchset (and they are the only people who develop that patchset) that all grsecurity work is done in their free time. Which means that nobody (including their paying customers) is paying them for grsecurity development.
This usually comes up when Spender wants to claim that Linux has a lot of money in its development and that it is unreasonable that he, the poor developer he is, should work on upstreaming his patches. Personally it always struck me as dishonest.
I recently had an argument with them about this, which was "fun"[1].
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14210140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14210140