• Subversivo@lemmy.mlB
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    4 years ago

    Link tells whole story. They submitted buggy patches to see how devs would react and published a paper on it. Now, they submitted buggy patches again.

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      So they were being either extremely stupid or extremely rotten by keeping giving the kernel devs more work debugging bad code?

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        Giving other work and making them look bad if they fail to spot errors to personal academic gains. Yes, extremely rotten.

        Don’t know how ethics committees work on US, but this is the thing that should never be allowed to pass them.