So just cause MS software is inferrior and we choose to use alternatives we have no right to enforce our decision on others. I am not trying to make a case for MS or for not purchasing RH. My point is that companies like MS have far more $$$ to throw about and bait the ministers/beaureaucrats than most of the other teeny-meeny FLOSS companies. And this is what it takes to buy a deal of this size.
Dear Trevor
The point i'm making is with regards to the license. It not the price or the crappy software (disputable). Also its not true that MS software is always inferior but the fact is that the licence is too restrictive. People r not aware as to what the GPL means, neither do they read the EULA that they agree to when they install any propritory product. Everyone wants to make money, no doubt and they should, how else will the economy progress?