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"This argument seems to start from the assumption that any externally maintained kernel code *can* get into the kernel, which doesn't stand up to reality. Once you admit that there is code which, for very good reasons, won't ever be accepted into the mainline kernel tree, what you are saying amounts to: 'Code that isn't fit to be included in the mainline kernel isn't fit to exist at all'," Tilman Schmidt argued during the ongoing debate about whether or not LSM should support modules.

"You are trying to make sure that maintainers of code -- ie. any random joe who wants to improve the code in the future -- has LESS ACCESS to docs later on because someone signed an NDA to write it in the first place." — Theo de Raadt, in a February 14th, 2007 message posted to the OpenBSD -misc Mailing List.