If the original headline had been "graduate student submits auto-generated patches wasting several hours of kernel developer time," I sincerely doubt there woul

If the original headline had been "graduate student submits auto-generated patches wasting several hours of kernel developer time," I sincerely doubt there would have been any outrage. Certainly no one would be calling it proportionate to ban the many tens of thousands of people at their university and to revert every patch they had ever submitted. Unfortunately for the graduate student, their lab had previously written a paper about sending buggy patches. One thing leads to another and we have "the UMN Affair"