I have spent time doing contract development, and also made volunteer contributions to open source projects (not the Linux kernal, though). Certainly, if I wer

I have spent time doing contract development, and also made volunteer contributions to open source projects (not the Linux kernal, though). Certainly, if I were pulled into reviewing UMN kernel patches, I would be tracking my hours at my standard hourly rate, so that I would have the documentation for a claim for actual damages. Cleaning up other people's bad-faith crap is not what open source developers volunteer for. UMN caused real work for real people for bad-faith reasons, and should pay up. The work they caused is deflecting volunteers from otherwise productive activities. I suspect many volunteer kernel developers do contract development to pay the bills -- it should not be hard for them to just create a billing code for UMN clean-up. The Linux foundation can aggregate them all and dump that on UMN. (Also, I have a MSEE from UMN, and I can tell you that the next attempt at fund raising from me is not going to go well for them.)