Re: [2.6 patch] let CONFIG_SECCOMP default to n

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 06:07:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 21:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This patch was already sent on:
> > > - 26 Jun 2006
> > > - 27 Apr 2006
> > > - 19 Apr 2006
> > > - 11 Apr 2006
> > > - 10 Mar 2006
> > > - 29 Jan 2006
> > > - 21 Jan 2006 
> > 
> > 3 days ago?  That seems a bit silly.  Why didn't you just ping Andrew on
> > it?
> > 
> > Andrew, what's the status of this?  Can we get an ACK or a NACK before
> > this starts getting reposted every day? ;-)
> 
> I am stolidly letting the arch maintainers and the developer of this
> feature work out what to do.

Andrea is proud of getting a patent for the server part [1], so I doubt 
he would be happy with no longer having the client part defaulting to Y...

It might sound a bit strange that although Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds 
even wrote an open letter to the President of the European Parliament
calling "Software patents are also the utmost threat to the development 
of Linux and other free software products" [2]...

One bonus point for people arguing in favor of software patents - even 
Linux actively supports patented services.

cu
Adrian

[1] http://www.cpushare.com/legal
[2] http://www.effi.org/patentit/patents_torvalds_cox.txt

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