Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:57:36 +0000 | From | agentoranger@waifu ... | Subject | Grsecurity blaims insane conspiracy theory for self-imposed legal woes |
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Grsecurity blaims insane conspiracy theory for self-imposed legal woes From the Grsecurity website: https://grsecurity.net/setting_the_record_straight_on_oss_v_perens_part1
> Company Background > > Open Source Security, Inc. was formed in 2008 initially to handle > donations related to the grsecurity project, an open source project > started in 2001 and freely (in all senses) available to the world until > at least 2015. In 2015 we made our stable patches available to paid > customers only via our website, a right granted by the GPL. At the > time, we still had a freely (in all senses) test patch available. In > April of 2017 we stopped providing the test patches to the general > public. > A Troll's Revenge > > Only a few months after this, a notorious Internet troll who had used > grsecurity in the past and been banned from our forums for misogynistic > comments was apparently upset at having his access cut off completely > (after previously being denied access to the stable patches in 2015), > and came out of hibernation to extend a private and public campaign to > get revenge. This campaign continues today even, with posts to LKML, > various distribution mailing lists, and posts and comments on Slashdot, > Reddit, and other news aggregators. This person poses under various > names, usernames, and email addresses, but most recently poses as a > legitimate lawyer claiming the GPL can be rescinded. The emails come > from @redchan.it,@airmail.cc, and other anonymous mailing services with > usernames like "aconcernedfossdev", "visionsofalice", "gameonlinux", > "nisus", and "unconditionedwitness". Most commonly, the email subject > regarding us includes: "Why will no-one sue GrSecurity for their > blatant GPL violation?" or "Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity." > In many instances, due to the changing names and email addresses, > readers are unaware this is the same "MikeeUSA" troll, a self-professed > misogynist and pedophile, that had been harrassing and issuing death > threats to women in Open Source for years. > > But the anonymous troll wasn't able to inflict the kind of damage he > wanted to achieve alone. People saw an unstable individual mixing > misogynistic comments with nonsensical legal theories, making it clear > he was not an expert and his comments had no basis in reality. To > inflict the damage he wanted, he'd need to enlist the help of someone > the public trusts and views as an expert on license compliance matters, > so that it'd be accepted as fact by the public. So in private, he > contacted various influential people (including Richard Stallman, Eben > Moglen, Bradley Kuhn, and Bruce Perens) involved in Free Software/Open > Source in an attempt to bait them into accepting and repeating his > claims and wild legal theories as true. None of them took the bait, > except for Bruce Perens. > > Perens' Collaboration > (... and on it goes) ( https://grsecurity.net/setting_the_record_straight_on_oss_v_perens_part1 https://archive.is/7B9No ) ( https://grsecurity.net/setting_the_record_straight_on_oss_v_perens_part2 https://archive.is/7B9No ) ( https://grsecurity.net/setting_the_record_straight_on_oss_v_perens_part3 https://archive.is/tvlWf)
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