> The lack of effort to work with the rest of the kernel community. It's not lack of effort. There's blame to be had on both sides, but for a long time (more t

> The lack of effort to work with the rest of the kernel community. It's not lack of effort. There's blame to be had on both sides, but for a long time (more than a decade) the kernel community stonewalled any security ideas because they just didn't care about mitigating unknown vulnerabilities. They thought it fine to just fix them after they're found, and have everyone recompile. There's a few articles on this relationship, but it's not as one-sided as you seem to be saying. The fact that it took order of a decade (I can't be bothered to look up actual years right now) between grsec adding non-executable pages to mainline Linux doing it is embarrassing. The linux kernel community could and should have re-invented non-executable pages during that time, if nothing else, like when OpenBSD reinvented it and pretended they were first.