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For Linux security, principle of least privilege prevails, says Red Hat
security expert
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| This brings us to the second aspect, which is audit trail. This can be the
| syslog messages that applications send or the actual audit logs. Anytime an
| access decision is denied by SELinux and logged, it will go to the audit
| system if that is running. In a production environment, one would want to
| strive to follow file and directory layouts that SELinux is expecting so that
| the data is labeled correctly. If one does this, in theory you should not get
| any events unless you have a potential intruder.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1321374,00.html
Red Hat opens up on patent settlement - or does it?
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| How can you be transparent about a settlement without discussing money? How
| much is a patent worth today? I certainly would want to know and I'd bet
| millions of others would too.
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| [...]
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| This is a fantastic thing. Now if Novell had been as community minded when it
| struck its patent covenant deal with Microsoft the biggest patent threat
| hovering over the Linux community as a whole IMHO would just go away.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/07/red-hat-opens-up-on-patent-set.html
At the end it's only Sun that looks good.
The Red Hat-FireStar Settlement Agreement is Published
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| Most of the agreement is typical language, but Tiller explains the parts that
| are specific to this agreement, which is groundbreaking. It's living proof
| that the GPL can function as intended, and without compromise, while still
| dealing with US patent law.
|
| [...]
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| Even such code distributed by Novell and Sun Microsystem is covered. Is that
| not refreshing? Note also that "Red Hat Product" includes "predecessor
| versions" of any Red Hat Products, including versions Red Hat or its
| employees had no involvement in developing. When you think about the
| Novell-Microsoft patent deal, what a contrast! That covered only Novell's
| paying customers, and deliberately excluded the rest of the community. Red
| Hat, with a deeper understanding of the GPL and the community's interests, in
| contrast responds with a very creative, GPL-compatible agreement that
| reflects how the community has always worked -- competition on merit, not on
| exclusion or proprietary moves.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080715054748526
Yesterday:
Sun invalidates the Firestar patent
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| Mike Dillon, Sun's general counsel, has put up a weblog entry describing that
| company's efforts to invalidate the Firestar patent - the one Red Hat just
| licensed.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/289747/
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