[Ksummit-discuss] grsecurity and kernel hardening

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:49:52 -0700
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> Getting a vendor to see that they have sound business reasons for giving
> back is a specialised skill usually practised over long time period and
> only successfully by a few people in the industry.  It doesn't happen
> automatically and certainly not because you have a dummy spit over
> someone taking something you advertised as "for free" and having the
> temerity to expect not to have to pay you.
> 
> Perhaps it would be useful to run a "how to get your company to regard
> open source as an investment" type training course, but it's probable
> that the kernel summit isn't the best venue.

Agreed, plus the KS is not necessarily going to be the right venue
for this. Kind of hard to preach to the converted.