So true...
So true...
Posted Mar 1, 2011 6:47 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: they will lose some customers over this by jspaleta
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Yup - that's exactly right. Business people are monitoring these things, you know. When such "stupid change" are introduced there are lots of talks about how "I will not support them because of X", but then adoption rate shows that very few people actually care.
When people really do care (think SONY's rootkit fiasco, for example) companies backpedal furiously. But I doubt it's the case here: people who are build the RHEL subscriptions and people who are hacking kernel in the same organizations are usually just totally different people so I doubt this change will affect adoption rate all that much.