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A comment on Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusations. Parent comment

Re:Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusa... by w1ntermute on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:33PM (#2289880)
Isn't this kind of pointless though? On a previous HN post about this, someone said that you could just use diff to extract the changes. It won't be long before someone creates a site with the patches that Red Hat should have provided.
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Re:Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusa... by nwmcsween on Friday March 04, 2011 @08:17PM (#2290500)
That would make "clean" patches, meaning you get no real history of why things changed, which is important in understanding a large project like Linux.
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