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I asked Kangjie Lu to explain the original complain. Here is his reply from Wednesday:

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Thanks for sharing.

The statements in the link are wrong. I will make some clarifications.

1. We have never intentionally introduced any bugs in Linux. 2. The project that investigated the issues with OSS patching process was done in November 2020. We did get an IRB letter for the research. The purpose of the research is to improve the security of the OSS patching process. 3. One of my students is working on a different project which has nothing to do with the project mentioned in 2. The student aims to fix problems in Linux instead of introducing problems.

If you are interested in the project mentioned in 2, please find more details here: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

I hope these clarify the misunderstandings.

Kangjie Lu Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu

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