> This makes the conclusions and way data was presented in the paper extremely questionable.
This makes them invalid. Their entire claim is based on malicious code entering the kernel, not anonymous/fake name commits (which is a separate issue). If you take that away there is no actual paper, just a hypothesis which everyone already knew and thus does not warrant this much fanfare. They added nothing to the research field, bothered people with it while contributing to no-one but themselves.
This is what we around here now call "Diederik Stapelen" (since he is a infamous example here): faking you data, using people to do/in your work, presenting it as true and gaining from it. It is omnipresent in some fields and in my opinion should be met with severe repercussions as it damages everyone else who was not part of it.
This makes them invalid. Their entire claim is based on malicious code entering the kernel, not anonymous/fake name commits (which is a separate issue). If you take that away there is no actual paper, just a hypothesis which everyone already knew and thus does not warrant this much fanfare. They added nothing to the research field, bothered people with it while contributing to no-one but themselves.
This is what we around here now call "Diederik Stapelen" (since he is a infamous example here): faking you data, using people to do/in your work, presenting it as true and gaining from it. It is omnipresent in some fields and in my opinion should be met with severe repercussions as it damages everyone else who was not part of it.