Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Posted Mar 2, 2011 14:10 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source by rriggs
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Red Hat has been very clear with their customers for at least the last 6 months that something like this was going to happen because certain competitors were taking advantage of their openness, repackaging Red Hat's work as their own.
Excuse me??? Isn't Red Hat's entire business built around taking advantage of the openness of thousands of Free Software developers and repackaging their work?
I'm not saying it's wrong of Red Hat to build a business around that. It clearly isn't; those thousands of Free Software authors have consented to allow this by licensing their works under the GPL. It's just a bit rich for Red Hat to complain that others are doing to its work exactly what Red Hat has been doing for 15+ years.
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