It doesen't bother me that much that China has stolen Red Hat. The same developers give away a free copy of the same thing to anyone for free, you just don't get human support with it.
Unix has been an open source OS since its inception. There are dozens of free variants out there like UBUNTU, Fedora, BSD, I think Sun even has an opensource Unix variant available now.
Typical Chineese piracy here though. I think its funny they like to think of themselves as an enlightened and central culture. But just like the Ruskies, they steel designs from America because they are nowhere near industrious and innovative as the US. What really bothers me is them stealing our most advanced warhead designs and our top-of-the-line communications surveillence platforms. They are industrious and innovative thiefs I guess.
Thanks for weighing in again. My opinion is it's more than typical Chinese piracy, since that requires an illegal/immoral action that will always have adverse reactions. This is also a gigantic technology transfer.
The correct US response to Chinese piracy and tech transfer is to more strictly enforce the laws. Not give them advanced technology completely free and clear, instead, that is obviously only a worsening of the problem, not an improvement of it. If you care about that sort of thing, which I obviously feel you do.