Red Hat bid to undercut Oracle, Novell

Mar 07, 2011, 19:04 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Varghese)

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"Red Hat has decided to release its kernel source with all patches pre-applied to make it difficult for its competitors to lure away its customers.
"Brian Stevens, the chief technical officer of the company, who offered this explanation towards the end of an eight-paragraph blog entry attempting to explain the sudden change, did not respond directly to questions sent to the company by iTWire."

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