Especially when argued like that.

On balance, RedHat's offer was probably made to open a few eyes to the fact that not everyone sells software according to the Microsoft business model. For RedHat, it is an entirely affordable and legitimate act of business for them to make this offer. If the offer is taken up, while they may be surprised, I can't see them failing to pull through.

You know, I don't think Microsoft dare touch the offer, one way or the other. :-) I don't think they can't afford to acknowledge that a much smaller company can not have financial hardship giving away that much software for nix. Raising the fact that the software is available gratis anyway will just not work. They may, though, try some other angle.

Wade.