[rhelv6-list] RHEL6 kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64 panic...

[Musayev, Ilya]

I'm curious what it means to end-users. How does this change the game for me - RedHat customer?

I'm under assumption, this also explains why latest RHEL release notes disclose the bug numbers with slight description of what was discovered but when you try to open the BZ id, it tells you that you dont have permissions - essentially hiding all the details. This is probably a way of showing a middle finger to Oracle but unintentianlly also to everyone else.

I think they could have addressed this issue with new licensing clause that would forbid Oracle like usage and possible permit community release - like CentOS. Come to think about it - CentOS also steals a large piece of "would be financial gain" pie - there are countless commercial CentOS users outthere.

This may be a good business decision which is understandable - but its bad for open source community in general that relies on RHEL.

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It makes sense to me, I wouldn't want to see Oracle keep stealing away and profiting from FOSS, they've got almost everything cornered already.




On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Matthias Saou <thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net<mailto:thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>> wrote:
Hi,

I guess this is also related :
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1550231/Red-Hat-Stops-Shipping-Kernel-Changes-as-Patches

So they want to bother Oracle? I can understand that. But right now
what I see is that it also bothers me, a faithful customer. So this is
a slippery slope...

Matthias

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