Grsecurity goes private

On April 26, the grsecurity project announced that it was withdrawing public access to its kernel-hardening patch sets; henceforth, they will be available only to paying customers of Open Source Security, Inc., the company behind this work. This move has yielded quite a bit of discussion and no small amount of recrimination. It is not clear, though, that the right conclusions are being drawn from this change.

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