The thing about the Red Hat model is that it's a choice of a particular software company to decide which model they choose to pursue. Autodesk charges a lot of

The thing about the Red Hat model is that it's a choice of a particular software company to decide which model they choose to pursue. Autodesk charges a lot of money for its proprietary products, and will sue you if you try to pirate them, and Red Hat will give you the software for free and charge you for services. The objective of the RIAA lawsuits isn't to kill the Red Hat model for music (although perhaps they would if they could) -- it's to preserve the Autodesk model for music as an option. I don't think they're going about in in the best way but I can see why they are doing it -- they believe that the Autodesk model is as economically and morally legitimate one as the Jonathan Coulton model of distributing music for free and then making money on touring.