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Re: Messing with the kernel (Was: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6)
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Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Mar 2011 22:54:19 -0800
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On 3/3/2011 13:47, Brett Viren wrote:
> With the recent change in Red Hat's business tactics, messing with the
> kernel apparently just got more difficult:
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html
>
> Or, maybe, now we should just consider Red Hat's kernels to come
> "pre-messed".
>
>
> -Brett.
>
> PS: my guess is that RH will not continue with this silly behavior.
> They should really know better.

When I asked my account rep about this immediately after 6.0's release 
in November he responded (with typographical errors included), "There is 
work going on for kernel source browser but now ETA available for it."

-- 
Garrett Holmstrom

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