I don't have the name of the professor.

[Edited: it seems like they do love OSS and contribute a lot. See child comments.]

I had based my consideration on the way they are testing the open-source development model.

These professors actually love OSS... but they need to respect kernel maintainers request to stop these "experiments".

From the researchers:

> In the past several years, we devote most of our time to improving the Linux kernel, and we have found and fixed more than one thousand kernel bugs; the extensive bug finding and fixing experience also allowed us to observe issues with the patching process and motivated us to improve it. Thus, we consider ourselves security researchers as well as OSS contributors. We respect OSS volunteers and honor their efforts.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

It feels to me you have jumped to an untenable conclusion without even considering their point of view.

Yes. I removed a lot of my ranting accordingly. Thanks, and sorry.

Thank you, appreciated.

My analysis of that exact same quote was that it was insincere cover to allow them to continue operating an anti-OSS agenda which was made clear in the paper itself.