[goldstategop]

Like Lindows, Red Hat leverages open source software by offering it for downloading from one location via a subscriber update service. Sure people could look all over the net for free Linux software if they knew where to find it. Most people don't and will happily pay a reasonable fee to download and install it from the company's own servers.

[Mr. K]

so people who develop software and give it away free are good, but charging money to package and sell add on features is bad... But people who write code for money are bad...

I am seeing a logical disconnect here
(not you personally Gold... but the Linux fanatics here are like liberals in their fanatic zeal)