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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710231850380.15765@anakin>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:52:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc: Thomas Fricaccia <thomas_fricacci@...oo.com>,
Crispin Cowan <crispin@...spincowan.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
LSM ML <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: LSM conversion to static interface
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:24:42PM -0700, Thomas Fricaccia wrote:
> > As Sarbanes-Oxley and
> > other regulatory laws require these customers to use "standard
> > kernels", the result is a rather dreary form of vendor lock-in, where the
> > security framework is coupled to the distribution.
>
> Wait, what?
>
> Since when does Sarbanes-Oxley decree that a company must use a
> "standard kernel"? And just exactly what defines such "standard
> kernel"? Can you point out where in that bill it requires such a thing?
Simple, these days Sarbanes-Oxley is the default argument behind anything being
pushed down your throat in a company.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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