Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Posted Mar 3, 2011 7:09 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)In reply to: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source by dag-
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
The observation was, that online, the extra work involved in offering sourcecode to everyone - over offering it only to customers, is typically very little, and it can even be easier to offer it to everyone.
Thus, very little gratitude is required for going "above and beyond" the duties by giving sourcecode to everyone, rather than just customers. Yeah it's an advantage, but it's a tiny contribution. (even if they -did- give the source only to customers, free-for-all mirrors of these source-packages would spring up in a matter of days automagically.)
RedHat does however do many things that are significant positive contributions to the Open Source community, for example several paid employees of theirs are regular contributors to central projects.
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