[CS-FSLUG] Red Hat turns on Oracle and other Red Hat Linux clone-makers

Timothy Butler tbutler at ofb.biz
Fri Mar 18 23:18:26 CDT 2011


On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:18:25 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> 
>> Red Hat has decided it’s no going to be Mr. Nice Linux anymore for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone makers such as Oracle and CentOS .
> 
> For those who haven't been following this story since it came out two weeks ago, CentOS and Scientific Linux are unaffected by this move. They both strive for cloning completely what comes from Red Hat, then adding their own touches on top. It's specifically aimed at Oracle, which tends to tinker more with internal specifics of the kernel.

	Good for Red Hat. They stay true to their FOSS principles while not aiding a far less FOSS friendly company...

	-Tim



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