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Re:Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusa... by ascendant on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:19PM (#2289843)
It's sound business because I'd rather RedHat continue to be the leader in the space of commercial open source than Oracle. We've seen what Oracle does to open source since they acquired Sun and it's not pretty.
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Re:Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusa... by yuhong on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:38PM (#2289896)
Though do note that Oracle Enterprise Linux existed before they acquired Sun.
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Re:Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusa... by mbreese on Friday March 04, 2011 @05:03PM (#2290000)
But not before RHEL 5. So, they made this change with their next major release RHEL6.

Actually Oracle started copying RHEL4 as Oracle Unbreakable Linux, but it wasn't a threat until the RHEL5 variant.

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