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UMN Authors’ Clarifications on the “hypocrite commit” work in the Linux Kernel [pdf]
- HarryHirsch 6y agoCan someone who is familiar with Linux kernel development explain how In the past several years, we devoted most of our time to improving the Linux kernel, and we have found and fixed more than one thousand kernel bugs and the extensive bugfinding and fixing experience also allowed us to observe issues with the patching process and motivated us to improve it squares up? They are part of the social infrastructure and still felt compelled to conduct a breaching experiment? Sometimes one must step across social boundaries, but only under extreme conditions. What really went on there?