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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by tinco on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:40AM (#26888863)
The goal is not penalizing or lumping everyone together. The goal is to have the issue fixed in the most effective manner. It's not the Linux team's responsibility to allow contributions from some specific university, it's the university's. This measure enforces that responsibility. If they want access, they should rectify.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by duxup on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:56AM (#26889021)
I would then say that the goal and the choice aren't aligned because "penalizing or lumping everyone together" is exactly the choice made.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by brainwad on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:28AM (#26889384)
They would presumably reconsider blanket ban, if the university says they will prohibit these specific researchers from committing to Linux.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by thu2111 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:03AM (#26901343)
If a company that sold static analysis products did this as part of a marketing campaign, would you likewise have so many reservations about blacklisting contributions from that company, or would you still be insisting on picking out individual employees?

It's pretty obvious what would happen if a firm tried this: they'd be taken to court and probably imprisoned, as this is a clear violation of the law (which is pretty broadly to capture any attempted interference with the correct operation of a computer program).

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by jeffffff on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:30AM (#26889412)
the university can easily resolve the issue by firing the professors
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by burnished on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:18PM (#26892564)
do you know that would resolve the issue? this just seems like idle, retributive speculation.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by joshuamorton on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:05PM (#26891453)
The University can presumably not in fact do this.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:03PM (#26895416)
Tenure does not generally prohibit for-cause termination, and there is a whole pile of cause here.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by duxup on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:24AM (#26890076)
The people who are effected by the rule or discouraged by it cannot do so.
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