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Re:Response from Greg Kroah-Hartman to University of Minneso... by xh-dude on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:08AM (#26953316)
Fair enough that Greg can’t know whether Aditya is playing a game. But when Greg says “You, and your group” - it’s surely not Greg’s responsibility to untangle the knot at this point. This comes after Aditya had the opportunity to recognize that Dr. Lu and UofM were on Greg’s radar. There was a window of opportunity for working out the details, having some situational awareness, detangling things. Instead, Aditya just hit back, in a personal and to my mind fairly repugnant way. I maintain he should have talked to Dr. Lu at this point because Dr. Lu could have sought a better resolution at this point. Everyone would be better off.

Yeah, Greg seemed angry in response - I think that’s understandable. Should Greg apologize? Sure, why not. But from the skid marks on the road, I’m pretty convinced about who was driving unsafely here.

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Re:Response from Greg Kroah-Hartman to University of Minneso... by nuclearnice1 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:17AM (#26955415)
> surely not Greg’s responsibility to untangle the knot at this point.

This is where we differ. Before you make a false permanent career damaging accusation you should do some basic checking if it’s true?

Greg lost his temper and now can’t back down.

He should have asked himself is it logical that a guy who has dozens of good commits over a period of a year is suddenly submitting known bad commits as part of a research paper that he is not an author of that was published months ago.

> This comes after Aditya had the opportunity to recognize that Dr. Lu and UofM were on Greg’s radar.

It’s not Aditya’s responsibility to read Greg’s mind.

> Instead, Aditya just hit back, in a personal and to my mind fairly repugnant way.

Those are strong accusations can you cite the text Aditya wrote that you believe is “repugnant” ?

Aditya wrote : “ respectfully ask you to cease and desist from making wild accusations that are bordering on slander.”

That’s extremely polite given Greg K H was spreading the phony and damaging story that Aditya was intentionally damaging the Linux kernel.

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