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Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches
Artefacto writes "The Ksplice team has made available a git repository with the changes Red Hat made to the kernel broken down. They are calling this project RedPatch. This comes in response to a policy change Red Hat had implemented in early 2011, with the goal of undercutting Oracle and other vendors' strategy of poaching Red Hat's customers. The Ksplice team says they've been working on these individual patches since then. They claim to be now making it public because they 'feel everyone in the Linux community can benefit from the work.' 'For Ksplice, we build individual updates for each change and rely on source patches that are broken-out, not a giant tarball. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to take the right patches to create individual updates for each fix, and to skip over the noise — like a change that speeds up bootup — which is unnecessary for an already-running system.'"
Freetards like yourself are why most people stay as far away as possible from the GPL. "How dare you use this GPL code in complete compliance with the license since you violated [insert ad hoc unwritten rule]!!"
Blaw, blaw, blaw.. freetard...
Not typical Microsoft Fanboi talk, so I'm guessing you're an Apple Whore?
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Providing source diffs for interested users is making a "hostile fork"? Oh the hypocrisy of Slashdot. When Apple provided huge blob diffs they were criticized to no end. When RHEL does it it is defended at all costs because of big, ebil Oracle. If they didn't want people to be able to do thus they shouldn't be using and releasing GPL code.