Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

> What I really dislike: the moral posturing of some open source illuminati. Apple fanboys and the Google kids do it too sometimes (while the Microsofties and the IBMers had the arrogance beaten out of them by the regulators, and Oracle – well, Larry even beat the regulators, so he doesn’t care). But you are not morally superior to the rest of us. You embraced open source to pursue your own self-interest, monetary or otherwise. And that’s good – we’re all are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But if you set yourselves up on a pedestal of holier-than-thou hauteur, expect to take a few brickbats.

Another qualitative difference you seem to miss is that Redhat products are the result of an *extremely* loose network of people, most of them were never even employed by RedHat. It really does not stretch the imagination to think that some of these contributors are actually morally superior to the rest of us to various degrees. As the most obvious (but far from single) example a lot of Redhat's code comes from Debian[*].

In other words, you are greatly oversimplifying this moral question. Just doing your job I guess!

[*] and it goes both ways, but it's not the point here.