Comment by gspr
4 years ago
> It's likely a university with professors that hate open source.
This is a ridiculous conclusion. I do agree with the kernel maintainers here, but there is no way to conclude that the researchers in question "hate open source", and certainly not that such an attitude is shared by the university at large.
Seems like a reasonable default assumption to me, until the people repeatedly attempting to sabotage the open source community condescend to -- you know -- stop doing it and then explain wtf they are thinking.
[Edit: they seem to truly love OSS. See child comments. Sorry for my erroneous judgement. It reminded too much of anti-opensource FUD, I'm probably having PTSD of that time...]
I fixed my sentence.
I still think that these professors, either genuinely or by lack of willingness, do not understand the mechanism by which free software warrants its greater quality compared to proprietary ones (which is a fact).
They just remind me the good old days of FUD against open source by Microsoft and its minions...
What papers or statements has this professor made to support that kind of allegation? Can you provide some links or references, please?
I don't have the name of the professor.
[Edited: it seems like they do love OSS and contribute a lot. See child comments.]
I had based my consideration on the way they are testing the open-source development model.
These professors actually love OSS... but they need to respect kernel maintainers request to stop these "experiments".
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