So just as I said their stated mission is to take the property of "a prominent North American Vendor" and instead "provide it for free to anyone who wishes to use it". Pretty much as liberal as you can get, if you want to use their mission as their judge of character, not that we needed to after this fiasco.
But when you get a support queue that's so completely out of line, people are going to post such exchanges all over the Net. The guy acted like a four year old, and the CentOS engineers that tried to work with him did better in dealing with this hack far better than most of us here could. Pure and simple.
Clearly, Microsoft doesn't. So, are you really in a position to criticize CentOS for allegedly committing the same sin that made Microsoft infamous?
You know not of which you speak. Therefore, Silence is Golden. Be rich.