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		mort96 on Aug 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redis is not “open core” I don't understand, why did Red Hat need to start shipping their RHEL kernel source pre-patched just because Oracle started providing commercial support for RHEL? I don't understand how shipping pre-patched vs not pre-patched kernel source is related to Oracle providing support.

lima on Aug 25, 2018 [–]

It makes it harder for Oracle (and, sadly, everyone else) to understand and support the patches.

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