Comment by francoisp
4 years ago
Me thinks that If you hold a degree from the University of Minnesota it would be a good idea to let your university know what you think of this.
4 years ago
Me thinks that If you hold a degree from the University of Minnesota it would be a good idea to let your university know what you think of this.
> it would be a good idea to let your university know what you think of this.
Unless there's something particularly different about University of Minnesota compared to other universities, something tells me that they won't give a crap unless you're a donor.
Not a great selling point for the CS department.
"Yes, we are banned from submitting patches to Linux due to past academic research and activities of our PhD students. However, we have a world-class program here."
I would argue it should be "due to past academic research and activities of our PhD students and professors"
Stanford continues to employ the famous Philip Zimbardo, and is Stanford not one of the top universities for psychology in the US?
Getting banned from Linux contribution is an ouchy for the university, but the damage has been done.
I'm trying to figure out how to do that. How can I get my degree changed? Will the university of (anyplace) look at my transcript and let me say I have a degree from them without much effort? I learned a lot, and I generally think my degree is about as good as any other university. (though who knows what has changed since then)
I'm glad I never contributed again as an alumni...
If it would be my univ, I'd send a personal email to the dean. https://cse.umn.edu/college/office-dean#:~:text=Dean%20Mosta....
If enough grads do that, I would expect the university will do something about it, and that would send a message. It's about where the money comes from in the end; (tuition, grants, research partnerships etc) IMO none of these sources would be very happy about what might amount to defacement of public property and waste of the time of people that are working for the good of mankind by providing free tools(bicycle of the mind) to future generations.
There is no novelty in this research; bad actors have been trying to introduce bad patches for as long as open source has been open.
That's my univ, and I just did exactly that. Mos Kaveh happened to be head of the EE department when I was there for EE. He's a good guy and had a good way of managing stressed-out upper-division honors EE students, so I'm hopeful that he will take action on this.