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		scott_s on March 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code... I think you're unclear on what is not being shared. From what I understand, old version of RHEL had a vanilla kernel, and then an RPM with RH patches to that kernel, as well as the documentation for those patches. New versions of RHEL will not have a vanilla kernel; it will only contain a kernel with their patches pre-applied. Documentation for those patches will only be available to subscribers. The code is not being treated as the commodity, but the documentation for that code.

TheAmazingIdiot on March 5, 2011 [–]

So, corporations with deep pockets (read Oracle) can buy the subscription through a proxy and have full access to the individual patches and full documentation. The rest of us independent and poor hackers cannot afford it and we suffer.

Yeah, good idea RedHat.

And yes, I know the GPL does not compel them to be nice.

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