If you're a young hacker that wants to get into kernel development as a career, are you going to consider going to a university that has been banned from officially participating in development for arguably the most prolific kernel?

The next batch of "researchers" won't be attending the University of Minnesota, and other universities scared of the same fate (missing out on tuition money) will preemptively ban such research themselves.

"Effective" isn't binary, and this is a move in the right direction.