That is, he wants to control software vendors with the threat of lawsuits from customers. LWN is missing a significant weakness in the capability bounding set. Write 0xffffffff to it to reset all capability bounds. It's trickier than changing cap-bound, but it's still feasible. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how.
Security is hard.
IF I am the copyright holder, as is the case with checkps and word2x in my case, I can licence under any licence I want. Provided you retain the copyright one can sell ones soul and keep it too. That not only remember that but that we do so with our subscriptions and encouraging new linux people to do the same. I was thinking of how a close coupling of Linux and Crusoe could give Wintel a run for their money on the server front. Till now Transmeta has concentrated on the mobile computing, because its very difficult to optimize a given operating system which you cannot change.