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Proactive probable refers to also banning the 6700 staff, along with the 46000 students, that are not part of the research project from ever contributing.
by SiempreViernes 6y ago
Proactive probable refers to also banning the 6700 staff, along with the 46000 students, that are not part of the research project from ever contributing.
- monocasa 6y agoThat staff and student body is governed by the same ethics board that allowed this to happen.
- cycomanic 6y agoFacebook experimented on people (some might have even been kernel programmers), but Facebook programmers are still contributing to the kernel. Let's not even talk about all the other organisations who have done some pretty unethical things, I mean lots of corporations who have or still are violating the GPL (on Kernel code even) are allowed to continue to contribute to the kernel.
- monocasa 6y agoThey didn't experiment on the kernel process itself. And it would be counterproductive to set up the incentives so that people who aren't contributing in the first place can't.
- pabs3 6y agoDo you have any examples of companies that are both still GPL violating and still contributing to Linux mainline?
- seoaeu 6y agoWhy is that a problem? Most kernel contributors aren't governed by any ethics board at all!
- josefx 6y agoThey probably work for some company and can you imagine the shit storm if it ever came out that Microsofts board of directors signed off on a Microsoft dev. actively submitting vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel?
- seoaeu 6y agoAn IRB and a board of directors aren't remotely similar. UMN actually does have a board of trustees but they've had literally nothing to do with this incident. The senior administration (and the CS&E department prior to the mailing list blowup) never even knew that this research was happening.
- zopa 6y agoRealistically, if a UMN student submits a patch from their personal, non-.edu email address, will anyone notice or care?