I assume you're talking about noncommercial free/open source software. I imagine it's very easy to deal with Red Hat, the PostgreSQL company, SUN/Oracle (who t

I assume you're talking about noncommercial free/open source software. I imagine it's very easy to deal with Red Hat, the PostgreSQL company, SUN/Oracle (who the hell owns MySQL??), etc. They all have sales teams and purchasing departments and all that jazz.