Exactly. Yet another fine example of a press individual who can't wrap his mind around the concept of free software and/or the GPL, so he tries to view it through the horse blinders of commerical software. Things don't work that way. He see's RedHat or Suse, or whoever is his favorite distro, as his version of MS, which isn't so. So from his myopic point of view, the fact that RedHat released a security patch means that RedHat created the patch themselves. Often very much not the case. The patch was most likely created by someone unrelated to RedHat, and all RedHat released was a rpm file for idiots like this guy to use to update their systems because he's too stupid to unpack a source tarball, and type ./configure ; make ; make install to update his system.

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