Quotes of the week

It's not possible to absolutely say that many Android distributors no longer have the right to distribute Linux. But nor is it possible to absolutely say that they haven't lost that right. Any sufficiently motivated kernel copyright holder probably could engage in a pretty effective shakedown racket against Android vendors. Whether they will do remains to be seen, but honestly if I were an Android vendor I'd be worried. There's plenty of people out there who hold copyright over significant parts of the kernel. Would you really bet on all of them being individuals of extreme virtue?

I think that realistically we should definitely look at our practices, but at the same time, I personally do put a lot of trust in "human relationships".

Often way more than "technical models".

So there is a lot of safety in just a purely human "this looks like the kind of pull request I expect". A lot of kernel developers write nice messages explaining the pull, and there may not be a cryptographic signature in text like that, but there is definitely a "human signature" that you start to expect.

Kernelroll is a linux kernel module for advanced rickrolling. It works by patching the open() system call to open a specified music file instead of other music files. Currently, it only checks if the file extension "mp3" is present and calls the original open() with the supplied path instead.