The "Spirit" of the GPL argument has never rung true with me. It's not about creating shared projects and having big hippie hacker sit-ins. It's about keeping

The "Spirit" of the GPL argument has never rung true with me. It's not about creating shared projects and having big hippie hacker sit-ins. It's about keeping CODE free. This is a perfectly legitimate move by Redhat. It's unfortunate that they felt they needed to do this, but they are under no obligation to provide source code to anyone other than those to whom they distribute, and the GPL certainly doesn't force them to support anyone at all - they want to support paying customers. It's not a move away from the spirit of the GPL in any way.