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Changes at YC 3 years ago

I believe it is the right move. You can make better impact funding a large number of startups with small amounts and guidance than focusing on few late stage startups. Even though 6% make it big in their first attempt the rest 96% do benefit from YC's role in their subsequent attempts. So the impact is huge when it comes to early stage funding.

I am definitely against the line of research and hope someone acknowledges their fault. I also want to appeal that the issue it taking a political turn with a lot of unwarranted hate in forums and media mostly from people who are not part of kernel community. We are talking about young researchers and some possibly are misguided or innocent. Lets now make a political feast out of this just because we can.

Their research could have been an advisory email or a blogpost for the maintainers without the nasty experiments. If they really cared for OSS they would have have collaborated with the maintainers and persuaded them to use their software tools for patch work. There is research for good of all and there is research for selfish gains. I am convinced this is the later.