[Apparmor-general] AppArmor News

[Crispin Cowan]

Malte Gell wrote:
> On Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007, Crispin Cowan wrote:
>   
>> Of interest to the AppArmor community, Novell has laid off
>> <http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9796140-39.html> several of the
>> AppArmor staff. However, AppArmor being open source, some of us have
>> then formed an AppArmor professional services company called
>> Mercenary Linux <http://www.mercenarylinux.com/>. If you need
>> AppArmor ported, enhanced, embedded, or deployed, you can come to us.
>>     
> WTF !?
>   
That's what I said :)

> How could this happen? Everybody is talking about security these days 
> and once Novell was proud AppArmor was so much easier to configure in 
> contrast to SELinux and now you get fired? Are they crazy? 
>
> The community has done the work and now you get fired, this seems to be 
> Novell's philosophy!
>
> Will you continue to contribute to openSUSE? What might be the future of 
> AppArmor within openSUSE
>   
Novell remains committed to AppArmor. I no longer speak for Novell, but
that's what they tell me :) It seems likely, considering the amount of
praise for AppArmor that the press is saying in the openSUSE 10.3 reviews.

Mercenary Linux is AppArmor open source developers for hire. We will
develop, enhance, port, or deploy AppArmor and other Linux security
features for whoever wants to pay for our services. Linux and AppArmor
being GPL2 projects, we will deliver the code to our customers under
GPL2 licenses, and they can share them with the public as they see fit.

If Novell discovers that they now don't have sufficient AppArmor
developer resources for the features they need for future SUSE releases,
we would be happy for Novell to hire us to develop what they need.

We will also continue contributing to the AppArmor project on our own,
but as usual in the consulting business, paying customers come first.

Being all ex-SUSE people, we all currently have SUSE Linux on our
machines, but that could change, depending on who hires our services.

Crispin

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Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.               http://mercenarylinux.com/
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