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Malevolent Developer Trolls Linux Kernel Development with Lots of Broken Patches

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Linux kernel is the biggest cooperative development project in existence and thousands of people from all over the world are actively participating. Unfortunately, not everyone is looking to help the open source community, and in fact, there are people who try to hurt it.

In the last few days, the Linux kernel maintainers have been inundated by patches sent to them by a guy called Nick Krause. It's not clear what his goals are or why he is ignoring everything that he's been told so far, but he continuously tries to get broken patches past the maintainers.

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