Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code release

Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by joe_the_user on Thursday March 03, 2011 @03:34AM (#2283316)

Wow,

It certainly gives you a feel Red Hat is feeling some resentment concerning those who "take" "their" source code.

RH is one of the largest businesses based on open source software. What's up? Are they feeling so much pressure they feel a economic need to stop "free loaders?" Is it simple greed?

There was a lot of sniping concerning Red Hat and Ubuntu's contribution to desktop Linux a while back. Another salvo in the "free loaders" battle?

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by burgerbrain on Thursday March 03, 2011 @04:01AM (#2283372)

If it encourages those companies to invest in linux in a similar way as Red Had does, I'm all for it.

And really, this is a very stupid definition of "obfuscate". This article is a non-article.

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by cageface on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:42AM (#2283532)

I've always felt that CentOS was in rather poor taste, even if it adheres to the spirit of the GPL. If you're really getting value out of Red Hat's enhancements to the system, then compensate them for their work.

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by vivekl on Thursday March 03, 2011 @08:57AM (#2283953)

Clearly you mean oracle here. Being an ex RH-er I can tell you RH sees great value in centos. It keeps small shops on the RH reserve even if they don't pay for a support contract - yet. Oracle has recently tried to position itself as an "enhanced" rhel especially wrt the kernel and this seems like an attempt by RH to make things a bit harder for them. I don't agree with the move though - you don't want to follow oracle down such slippery slopes...

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by cageface on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:59AM (#2287588)

What value does RH see in CentOS? I know quite a few admins using CentOS because it essentially gives them the benefits of RHEL without having to pay license fees. None of them have any intention of ever paying for a RHEL license.

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by sgk284 on Thursday March 03, 2011 @03:40AM (#2283335)

My understanding is that this has a lot more to do with Oracle representing Red Hat's work as their own to their customers.

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by joe_the_user on Thursday March 03, 2011 @03:52AM (#2283355)

Well, it seems like that could be dealt with through an information campaign...

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Re:Controversy surrounds Red Hat's "obfuscated" source code ... by rbanffy on Thursday March 03, 2011 @07:35AM (#2283738)

Oracle can outspend Red Hat very easily in advertising. Going head-to-head against them like that would be insane.

Besides that, Oracle has also made a lot of important contributions to Linux that Red Hat also benefits from (BtrFS is my favorite).

We don't need an arms race here...

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