> I think we can agree that businesses have the right to "fire" their customers, for (pretty much) any reason try like. Unless of course the business is subjec

> I think we can agree that businesses have the right to "fire" their customers, for (pretty much) any reason try like. Unless of course the business is subject to a contract which prohibits firing customers for that reason. For instance, if it uses the words > You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. then no, they certainly don't have the right to fire customers for exercise of the rights granted therein. (your next few paragraphs say the same thing in different words, so I'm going to skip them) > It's hard really to see how one can mandate an OSS company to -have- to do business with "any customer" when the moral-principle-premise is so high in OSS. I don't know what you mean by "moral-principle-premise", so forgive me if this isn't what your saying, but I think it's really easy to see how one could mandate that RH honor the GPL; if they retaliate against a customer for using their rights, then RH no longer has a license to use GPL software and get to be sued into oblivion. This would be much like how employees are protected against retaliation under assorted circumstances; you can fire an employee who alleged sexual harassment, but that had better not be the reason and you'd better have a very good paper trail to prove as much.