<a href="http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/">http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/</a><br clear="all"><br>I would welcome any comments on this for the p2p blog,<br><br>see:<br><br><p>Recently, Jonathan Corbet, respected kernel community member and
editor at LWN, commented on our change in kernel RPM packaging. When we
released RHEL 6 approximately four months ago, we changed the release of
the kernel package to have all our patches pre-applied. Why did we make
this change? To speak bluntly, the competitive landscape has changed.
Our competitors in the Enterprise Linux market have changed their
commercial approach from building and competing on their own customized
Linux distributions, to one where they directly approach our customers
offering to support RHEL. </p>
<p>Frankly, our response is to compete. Essential knowledge that our
customers have relied on to support their RHEL environments will
increasingly only be available under subscription. The itemization of
kernel patches that correlate with articles in our knowledge base is no
longer available to our competitors, but rather only to our customers
who have recognized the value of RHEL and have thus indirectly funded
Red Hat�s contributions to open source that will advance their business
now and in the future.</p><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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