Even though it's a corporation, Red hat has continually placed being a good member of the open source community over being one of the corporate community. Their dedication to open source is outstanding, and yet they receive very little thanks. As a stronghold and *the* prime of example of corporate GNU/Linux, they are an important domino. We have
seen Microsoft's FUD cause our comrades to pay for patents and intellectual property that doesn't exist and if Red Hat caves in, many more will follow. Let's rally our support behind Red Hat to make sure it doesn't happen!