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ascendant on March 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code...

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.

yuhong on March 4, 2011 [–]

Though do note that Oracle Enterprise Linux existed before they acquired Sun.

mbreese on March 4, 2011 | [–]

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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