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> It's not really surprising a bunch of academic-types were too far removed from open source etiquette Umm, there's etiquette in academia too you know... even

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  And that fact highlights the mistakes made here. A fellow researcher intentionally pushing bad data into a colleague's study as some kind of penetration test on the colleague's scientific methodology would be justifiably seen as betrayal, and a possibly bad faith betrayal at that since research grants are a finite resource. The researchers in the story appear to have failed to extrapolate that sort of collegial courtesy to the open source community maintaining Linux.
  • einpoklum 6y ago
    The researchers in this story acted unethically - as academics. I'm saying it's not the culture difference.