Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

IMHO, shipping kernel source as one big tarball, without breaking out the patches is OK if it was patched against the upstream kernel.The issue is only the command used - patch or diff.But, there also some information is lost as to how they have landed upon the final patch via incremental patches. :(

OTH, if the future updates are restricted to paid subscribers only, it means non-subscribers have to resort to _other means_ for getting those patches and it is definitely against the principles and spirit of free software. :(