# University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/university-of-minnesota-banned-from-contributing-to-linux-kernel/17290>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 24, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/university-of-minnesota-banned-from-contributing-to-linux-kernel/17290 "2021-04-24T03:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![manjula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/manjula/32/80981_2.png) [@manjula](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/manjula)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/university-of-minnesota-banned-from-contributing-to-linux-kernel/17290/1 "2021-04-24T03:09:43Z")

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I hope no one willfully and unethically experimenting and submitting deliberate bugs that render false results, at least in the Slicer-Core which will make our research publications useless.

[https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-april-21-2021](https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-april-21-2021)

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/university-of-minnesota-banned-from-contributing-to-linux-kernel/17290/2 "2021-04-24T14:24:42Z")

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Thanks for raising this @manjula. I hope Slicer’s code base is like a medical tent in a combat zone and that nobody will attack us on purpose but who knows so we try to review carefully.

This post provides some more background:

> **[Linux team in public bust-up over fake “patches” to introduce bugs](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/04/22/linux-team-in-public-bust-up-over-fake-patches-to-introduce-bugs/)**
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> Embarrassed overreaction or righteous indignation? An academic research group has provoked the Linux crew to ban their whole university!

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/university-of-minnesota-banned-from-contributing-to-linux-kernel/17290/3 "2021-04-24T15:06:10Z")

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> [@pieper](#):
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> Thanks for raising this @manjula. I hope Slicer’s code base is like a medical tent in a combat zone and that nobody will attack us on purpose but who knows so we try to review carefully.

This reminded me two MIT grad students getting kicked out of grad school due to submitting computer generated papers to IEEE conferences to indicate how random peer-review process was/is.

The reaction is way overblown in both cases…