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Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers [LWN net]

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Too Open? University of Minnesota Linux Ban Raises Issues

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. “You are not welcome here.” How did one email lead to a university-wide ban? I’ve spent the past week digging into this world the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. None of the University of Minnesota researchers would talk to me for this story. But among the other major characters the Linux developers there was no such hesitancy. This was a community eager to speak; it was a community betrayed.

The Linux Foundation s demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project

The Linux Foundation s demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project ZDNet 4 hrs ago © Fatos Bytyqi To say that Linux kernel developers are livid about a pair of University of Minnesota (UMN) graduate students playing at inserting security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel for the purposes of a research paper On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits is a gross understatement.  Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, well-known for being the most generous and easygoing of the Linux kernel maintainers, exploded and banned UMN developers from working on the Linux kernel. That was because their patches had been obviously submitted in bad faith with the intent to cause problems.  

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