News Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

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Linus Torvalds has weighed in on the University of Minnesota being banned from contributing to the Linux kernel.

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[mcclaigg]

Who really cares what Linus thinks or says/doesn't say; why is this "news"? I am still in awe of his efforts over the years, and am willing to forgive his behavior, but I will not forget that petulantly p****d on those around him and those who irked him. He stepped back from Linux and likely needs to stay there. He should be joined by the "maturity level age 13" creatures who submitted the scurrilous addenda to the kernel, and neither warrant any additional media coverage.

That said, what is the point of banning U of M in its entirely? How is the university and all of the other students/staff accompli to the trolls transgressions? Lack of institutional control is a concept for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, not a open source OS. What is the full rationale, please?

 

[Jim90]

...That said, what is the point of banning U of M in its entirely? How is the university and all of the other students/staff accompli to the trolls transgressions? Lack of institutional control is a concept for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, not a open source OS. What is the full rationale, please?

It's all about trust, and that trust has most certainly been breached. If the environment additionally contributed to this, then that, too, will be clearly in scope.
QA is difficult enough without deliberate acts adding to this, immature juvenile idiots seeking to score points.
Reputation is also, rather important, and when you factor in who owns the Linux trademark and has the ultimate say in what goes in to the next release then, perhaps, you'll understand his response, and with that, do tell us...would you really act any differently? Do you even understand the concept of taking pride for your own work? - it's implied that you don't, unfortunately.

 

[Marvin Martian]

It is about trust and also discouraging future bad behavior.

 

[ginthegit]

Who really cares what Linus thinks or says/doesn't say; why is this "news"? I am still in awe of his efforts over the years, and am willing to forgive his behavior, but I will not forget that petulantly p****d on those around him and those who irked him. He stepped back from Linux and likely needs to stay there. He should be joined by the "maturity level age 13" creatures who submitted the scurrilous addenda to the kernel, and neither warrant any additional media coverage.

That said, what is the point of banning U of M in its entirely? How is the university and all of the other students/staff accompli to the trolls transgressions? Lack of institutional control is a concept for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, not a open source OS. What is the full rationale, please?

I am not sure you understand how people like Linus think. I, like him am proud of my work and what it is supposed to accomplish, and when I create something (I am a Engineering Lecturer), and someone screws around with it (whether maliciously or not), then I can understand why he gets mad. Linus had an Open source vision with security in mind, and it would seem that the WOKE university has attached something into the code that is either deliberately compromising security, or trying to go out of the scope of Linus's original ethics. I have also acted like a 13 year old brat when my work gets screwed up, because it can take days or weeks to correct it... and I have to do it myself...

The following was written about the issue

The Linux Foundation has banned the entire University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux kernel. The expulsion comes after researchers from the school published a paper titled "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits."

This implies that they were banned for bad reason, but I more likely believe this one.

Greg Kroah-Hartman bans University of Minnesota from Linux development for deliberately buggy patches

Which is happening alot in this Bi partisan world, where Leftist technocrats want to control or have a backdoor to everything. The CIA and FBI have always tried, but LINUX is free and for the people. And if Greg did this, I am sure that it was for good reason, and the Woke! University has been caught red handed. Greg has shown that he takes his job seriously and has checked every line of code and found that the University's programmers have been nafarious.