State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

To be fair, even if "No one paid me to do it" is what PaX intended as a criticism, that's still quite acceptable. They spent a lot of effort on that work, and really it would be good if those who work on Linux get something towards food, shelter, etc. You can understand why he'd be miffed if others are now being supported to pick at their work and upstream bits.

E.g., every seems to be agreed PaX et al have done some good work on security. Wouldn't it be nice if some of the money going into hardening the kernel helped that work?

The question is whether the inter-personal issues at play can be overcome to make that possible. Whether PaX et al can co-operate, tackle the nits and implement review comments (which sometimes do no more than help give the reviewers a shared sense of participation and value - but we socio-insensitive techies often don't perceive the soft, socio-politics, sigh), etc. Whether the other side(s) could get over their hostility, etc. ?

Shame really for everyone, inc. the users.