OK, here's my two cents:

1) RedHat can charge whatever fees they want and the people that see value
in the products/services will pay them
2) RedHat cannot deny access to the code

Basically, if I want to download the RH9 ISOs from RedHat's own servers this
week, I'll need to pay some money. If somebody who _has_ paid the money get
the ISOs from them and then posts them on another server, it is completely
ethical for me to get them from the second server. The early access is just
an incentive to sign up for a RedHat service. If you don't sign up, you just
have to wait a little while or do some legwork and find another place to get
your software fix. I really don't think ethics is even an issue here.

-Brent


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