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> By not doing so, his begging to be treated differently from his peers sounds like the pleas of a getaway driver hoping to not get charged for the bank robbery

> By not doing so, his begging to be treated differently from his peers sounds like the pleas of a getaway driver hoping to not get charged for the bank robbery that his passengers committed. My gosh I hope you're never in charge of administering justice anywhere because this is just not how justice works in almost any liberal democracy. Say what you will about Prof. Kangjie Liu and his group and the patches themselves, but guilt through mere association is a dark thing to believe in. Takes like this are why so many people feel that, even though the UMN researchers were in the wrong, that the reaction has become mob-like.

darksaints 6y ago
All of the following are true about Aditya: - Used a static analyzer to programmatically create and submit low quality patches to the kernel - When a maintainer pointed out that his patches had bugs, he ignored them. - The static analyzer that was used was also used by his advisor who used it to identify sections of code that could be used surreptitiously for "hypocrite" commits with intentional bugs. - When caught submitting low quality patches with actual bugs, and it was pointed out that he directly works under the professor who was leading the hypocrite commits project, he didn't distance himself from the professor. All he could point out was that his name wasn't on the paper. - He hasn't stopped associating himself with his professor, nor has he denounced the ethical basis for that research. All he can say is that he had good intentions. When you take all of the above into account, it sounds like some major crocodile tear bullshit. Maybe it is all true and he wasn't trying to pull a fast one, but they're not trying to punish him, they're just trying to figure out if they can trust him. And there is no way in hell I would trust him with kernels that I use on a daily basis.

darksaints 6y ago

All of the following are true about Aditya: - Used a static analyzer to programmatically create and submit low quality patches to the kernel - When a maintainer pointed out that his patches had bugs, he ignored them. - The static analyzer that was used was also used by his advisor who used it to identify sections of code that could be used surreptitiously for "hypocrite" commits with intentional bugs. - When caught submitting low quality patches with actual bugs, and it was pointed out that he directly works under the professor who was leading the hypocrite commits project, he didn't distance himself from the professor. All he could point out was that his name wasn't on the paper. - He hasn't stopped associating himself with his professor, nor has he denounced the ethical basis for that research. All he can say is that he had good intentions. When you take all of the above into account, it sounds like some major crocodile tear bullshit. Maybe it is all true and he wasn't trying to pull a fast one, but they're not trying to punish him, they're just trying to figure out if they can trust him. And there is no way in hell I would trust him with kernels that I use on a daily basis.