Q - "Don't they have to give a copy to anyone who wants a copy?"
A - "No. The GPL gives him permission to make and redistribute copies of the program if he chooses to do so. He also has the right not to redistribute the program, if that is what he chooses." - http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIDemandACopy
"The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization." - http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
Another verbal defecation. Read before spouting hysterically, please.
You were much kinder in your reply to him than I would have been.
LOL, you're so hypnotized you don't even know what you're talking about. Or worse.
The terms of the license are, if you "redistribute", you have to release the source code to anyone that asks for it. ANYONE. Read the terms of the license itself, Section 3, I guessed you missed it while you were gobbling up the propoganda (FAQ).
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
That's why all these Red Hat knock offs exist. They have to give their source code away since they are selling the software, and alls these copies spring up. Talk about the bottom of the food chain, a knockoff of a knockoff.
But the Chicoms rename theirs "Red Flag" and use it to run their supercomputers, and who could blame them, they get their copies of GNU Linux for free, practically straight from the US DoD now it sounds like.
And here you are, unable to even properly spout the terms of the license they do this with, but still trying to defend it.