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yuhong on March 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code...

Though do note that Oracle Enterprise Linux existed before they acquired Sun.

mbreese on March 4, 2011 [–]

But not before RHEL 5. So, they made this change with their next major release RHEL6.

Actually Oracle started copying RHEL4 as Oracle Unbreakable Linux, but it wasn't a threat until the RHEL5 variant.

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