I fixed my sentence.
I still think that these professors, either genuinely or by lack of willingness, do not understand the mechanism by which free software warrants its greater quality compared to proprietary ones (which is a fact).
They just remind me the good old days of FUD against open source by Microsoft and its minions...
[Edited: it seems like they do love OSS and contribute a lot. See child comments.]
I had based my consideration on the way they are testing the open-source development model.
These professors actually love OSS... but they need to respect kernel maintainers request to stop these "experiments".
> In the past several years, we devote most of our time to improving the Linux kernel, and we have found and fixed more than one thousand kernel bugs; the extensive bug finding and fixing experience also allowed us to observe issues with the patching process and motivated us to improve it. Thus, we consider ourselves security researchers as well as OSS contributors. We respect OSS volunteers and honor their efforts.
https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....
It feels to me you have jumped to an untenable conclusion without even considering their point of view.
This is a ridiculous conclusion. I do agree with the kernel maintainers here, but there is no way to conclude that the researchers in question "hate open source", and certainly not that such an attitude is shared by the university at large.