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0 pointshenearkr4y ago0 comments

[Edit: they seem to truly love OSS. See child comments. Sorry for my erroneous judgement. It reminded too much of anti-opensource FUD, I'm probably having PTSD of that time...]

I fixed my sentence.

I still think that these professors, either genuinely or by lack of willingness, do not understand the mechanism by which free software warrants its greater quality compared to proprietary ones (which is a fact).

They just remind me the good old days of FUD against open source by Microsoft and its minions...

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meepmorp4y ago

What papers or statements has this professor made to support that kind of allegation? Can you provide some links or references, please?

henearkrOP4y ago

I don't have the name of the professor.

[Edited: it seems like they do love OSS and contribute a lot. See child comments.]

I had based my consideration on the way they are testing the open-source development model.

These professors actually love OSS... but they need to respect kernel maintainers request to stop these "experiments".

Pyramus4y ago

From the researchers:

> In the past several years, we devote most of our time to improving the Linux kernel, and we have found and fixed more than one thousand kernel bugs; the extensive bug finding and fixing experience also allowed us to observe issues with the patching process and motivated us to improve it. Thus, we consider ourselves security researchers as well as OSS contributors. We respect OSS volunteers and honor their efforts.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

It feels to me you have jumped to an untenable conclusion without even considering their point of view.

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