[Apparmor-general] AppArmor News

[John Johansen]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:12:50AM +0200, 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 !?
> 
> 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
> 
While I can not speak for all of what goes on in Novell and I shouldn't
comment on the current layoffs.

I can assure you that Novell is committed to contining to deploy and
support AppArmor.  It is still my job to develop and push AppArmor
and my new manager has assured me that he will provide additional
resources where and as he can.  A particular example I can offer
is that the YaST team is picking up development of the YaST
AppArmor module.

I can also assure the community that I will continue to work with
Crispin, my former collegues and the community in general to
continue the development of AppArmor.

regards
john
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