At the very least, it's misleading propaganda because Oracle is doing to MySQL this very same thing which RedHat does to the kernel. So Oracle being self-righteous about it won't wash.
RH does it to annoy Oracle, and Oracle does it to annoy MariaDB.
Posted Nov 19, 2012 3:40 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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I don't know that its fully analogous since Oracle is MySQL upstream and can fully deny/hide patches while Red Hat is not kernel upstream and pushes applicable patches upstream, so its not as if there's *no* information there.