On Tue 4 November, spender wrote: > I've spared you your precious time and gone ahead and done this for > you.
You might have a better reception if you dropped the attitude. Anyone reading the thread will quickly form the opinion that maintaining PaX within Debian would likely require frequent interaction with people like yourself{1}, Tiago Assumpcao{2} and Peter Busser{3}. On the other hand, maintaining exec-shield would involve collaborating with people like Ingo Molnar. From reading your respective posts, I know which I'd prefer... {1} http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg00076.html - Arrogant arsehole. Professes not to care if users get rooted, and would apparently withhold security vulnerabilities he discovers in competing projects in order to further the ends of the one he himself prefers. {2} http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg00090.html - Paranoid loon who believes the exec-shield ITP is part of some sinister RedHat conspiracy to take away our freedoms. {3} http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg00158.html - Wants to ensure that Adamantix will have an edge in security over Debian in the future. Claims he "would very much like to see that this project [Adamantix] serves no purpose anymore, because some or all of its ideas ended up in other (more mainstream) distributions" (http://www.adamantix.org/motivation.html), but started the distro before even looking into the possibility of working within Debian. Later opted *not* to become a Debian subproject when approached by the DPL. Yet still has the audacity to berate others for not doing enough to get PaX into Debian!