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If Brazil, one of the world biggest producers of beef, would announce to stop producing fish: would you wonder, whether Peru, one of the world biggest producers

If Brazil, one of the world biggest producers of beef, would announce to stop producing fish: would you wonder, whether Peru, one of the world biggest producers of fish, would stop producing fish? I find this quite weak argumentation coming from SUSE. Novell/SUSE was also (by far) the largest contributor to AppArmor at some point. And SUSE used it as the MAC framework in their consumer and enterprise distributions. Then seemingly out of nothing they fired the AppArmor team.

jabl 9y ago
Oh? What are they using now then? SELinux?
- sp332 9y ago
  AppArmor is configured to run by default on any fresh installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_security/data/sec_aaintro_enable.html https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_security/data... All the drama was back in 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20160410165126/http://www.cnet.com/news/novell-lays-off-apparmor-programmers/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160410165126/http://www.cnet.c... Looks like it blew over by 2008 https://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/20/opensuse-to-add-selinux-basic-enablement-in-111/ https://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/20/opensuse-to-add-selinux...
- cyphar 9y ago
  Both openSUSE and SLE use AppArmor by default. I believe we provide some support for SELinux if you want to use it, but AppArmor is the default LSM.
appleflaxen 9y ago
that's an important fact about the sustainability of any corporate contributor, but it's not relevant to the thesis of the article (which is that any corporate contributor makes decisions independently than others).