Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches'

Interesting read on The Register about Redhat "obfuscating" kernel code by changing the way it deals with kernel patches. Comments from the peanut gallery say that although this does not violate the GPL, it does violate the spirit of the GPL. But then again, how else can Redhat "protect" its market share in the shark-eat-shark commercial world?
And Redhat is specifically doing this to counter the threat to their market share and customer base by Oracle's OEL and CentOS.
Has there been an official comment from Oracle about this?
We have 70+ OEL servers - that used to be RHEL. So its is cause for concern for us, as Linux support and a stable and robust kernel are important to us.

Billy  Verreynne  wrote:
We have 70+ OEL servers - that used to be RHEL. So its is cause for concern for us, as Linux support and a stable and robust kernel are important to us.I'm not speaking official as Oracle on this, as you'd have to ask Product Management for an official response, but anecdotally:
The RHEL-compatible kernel in Oracle Linux is a direct rebuild of the Red Hat sources, regardless of how they're provided, so it doesn't matter too much. The UEK has its own source tree[1] and we still provide the .src.rpm in the traditional format of tarball+patches for that. The only kernel that may become slightly more difficult to create is the RHEL5+Oracle Patches kernel, but then we'd probably just provide that as the RHEL tarball+Oracle patches.
At the end of the day, Red Hat may feel that this will make life more difficult for us, but as we've already built our own kernel (UEK) with its own source tree which is independent from theirs, the impact is probably nowhere near what they were hoping for.
[1] http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-2.6-unbreakable.git;a=summary

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