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Re:A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021) by knowitnone3 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:32PM (#46610048)
They retaliated against the entire university. I don't think they learned anything.
Re:A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021) by imtringued on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:57AM (#46613850)
What's the alternative to banning bad actors? Making Linux maintainers take every spam commit 100% seriously as if it was legitimate? All that would bring about is that the second "research project" would be about spamming commits to the Linux kernel to DDOS the maintainers.
Re:A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021) by kahrl on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:55AM (#46615032)
I think you lack basic civics. You autistic?