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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel, previous contributions also removed (lore.kernel.org)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 years ago

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.