This "righteous indignation" would amuse me if it didn't sadden me.

> Where is the hue and cry about the "Spirit of Free Software" there?

The spirit of free software is at a place you just demonstrated with your comment that you don't understand the begining of. The spirit of free software is the ability for anybody to help its neighbour without condition (with the precision that when a definition of "help" is needed, it's right to exclude the possibility to allow third parties to remove this ability for others, because the ability to harm others and/or refuse to help them would obviously not qualify for "help"), and you certainly are not in the spirit of free software when you voluntarily undermine / deteriorate the quality of what you provide to both your customer, upstream, and the linux community at large and when you ask your customers to chose between their freedom of helping themselves and third parties and other contractual relationship with RH (faced with such a choice, my hope is that as many as possible customers of RH will indeed chose to retain their ability to help others, so will terminate their relationship with a player gone rogue that tries to be harmful to the community by distributing their work in an deliberately obfuscated way in the displayed and recognised attempt to slow down customers and the community and make their work artificially more difficult). There are indeed lots of people who even think with good arguments that this RH move is indeed even against the _letter_ of the GPLv2 (on top of being obviously against the spirit of free software...)