Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches'

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 5, 2011 9:59 AM EDT
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Red Hat has changed the way it distributes Enterprise Linux kernel code in an effort to prevent Oracle and Novell from stealing its customers, making it more difficult for these competitors to understand which patches have been applied where. Some have speculated that the change is designed to make it harder for Oracle as well as the open source CentOS project to build their own Linux distributions. But Stevens says this is not the case. He says the change is meant to hamper Oracle and Novell's ability to offer support to customers who are already running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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this doesn't make sense tuxchick 6 1,297 Mar 7, 2011 5:55 PM

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