Comment by luckylion
4 years ago
> None of those people did anything wrong. Putting the onus on them to effect change to me seems unfair. The people banned didn't do anything wrong.
Some of the people banned didn't do anything wrong. Others tried to intentionally introduce bugs into the kernel. Their ethics board allowed that or was mislead by them. Obviously they are having serious issues with ethics and processes.
I'm sure the ban can be reversed if they can plausibly claim they've changed. Since this was apparently already their second chance and they've been reported to the university before and the university apparently decided not to act on that complaint ... I have some doubts that "we've totally changed. This time we mean it" will fly.
"Some"
How many people didn't and did? The numbers seem absurd.
No way to tell. How many people at UMN do usually submit kernel patches that aren't malicious? In any case, it did hit the right people, and it potentially causes collateral damage.
Since it's an institutional issue (otherwise it would've stopped after they were reported the first time), it doesn't seem wrong to also deal with the institution.