Comment by mk89
4 years ago
This is for me unrelated and even a little bit minimizing the issue here.
The purpose of the research was probably to show how easy it is to manipulate the Linux kernel in bad faith. And they did it. What are they gonna do about it besides banning the university?
I believe it comes down to having more eyes on the code.
If a corporation relies upon open sourced code that has historically been written by unpaid developers, if I was that corportion, I would start paying people to vet that code.