“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by bluGill on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:58AM (#26889047)

One way to get everyone in a university on the same page is to punish them all for the bad actions of a few. It appears like this won't work here because nobody else is contributing and so they won't notice.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by fencepost on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:06AM (#26889859)

It's not the number of people directly affected that will matter, it's the reputational problems of "umn.edu's CS department got the entire UMN system banned from submitting to the Linux kernel and probably some other open source projects."

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by duxup on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:03AM (#26889115)

And anyone without much power to effect change SOL.

I know the kernel doesn't need anyone's contributions anyhow, but as a matter of policy this seems like a bad one.

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