Quotes of the week

This is a big motivation behind our "fish" names for boards -- they're pretty unappetizing to the pr/marketing folks so they never get mixed up with final product names and we can concentrate on making the hardware work.

selinux relabels are the new fsck

The lack of any changelog in a patch is usually a good sign that the patch needs a changelog.

In the end neither side is right. There are useful things that you can do with either, but as everyone and his demented gerbil has pointed out, no one has the True Security Solution. Not even SELinux, which violates some pretty fundamental security principles (see: "small enough to be analyzed") in actual deployment. TOMOYO violates "non-circumventable", just in case anyone thinks I'm picking on someone. Heck, even Smack isn't perfect, although I will leave it to others to autoclave that puppy.

If we are only talking about obligations under the GPL, sure, no one violated copyright licenses. But what *did* happen is someone basically said, "I want to experiment on a whole bunch of users, but I don't want to spend the effort to do things in the right way. I want to take short cuts; I don't want to worry about the fact that it will be impossible to test kernels without pulling Frankenstein combinations of patches between Fedora 13 and Fedora 12." It's much like people who drill oil in the Artic Ocean, but use single-hulled tankers and then leave so much toxic spillage in their wake, but then say, "hey, the regulations said what we did was O.K. Go away; don't bother us."