Bilski's growing up, and smacking down some bad software patents (opensource.com)

I don't think Florian wants to paint Red Hat as »evil«. What his comment seems to say is that, in the software patent field, they are acting like a publically traded company (which by law is required to attempt to turn a profit) rather than a knight in shining armour fighting on behalf of the FLOSS community. This is very different from »evil«. It is obvious that Red Hat could do a lot more to work towards the outright abolishing of software patents, but it is also obvious that it might not automatically be in the company's best interest to actually devote a lot of resources to this, when it may be more commercially expedient to make other arrangements.

The problem, it seems, is really with people who would much rather see Red Hat as the knight in shining armour, and who do not enjoy being told (by Florian) that Red Hat sometimes acts like a commercial company. Red Hat is not in the business of making the world a better place. Red Hat, like any company, is in the business of generating profits for its investors. They may go about that by doing things that also happen to make the world a better place, which is nice, and so far they seem to have a pretty good track record compared to many other companies, but they are under no obligation to do so.