All of this is nonsense (Score 1)

I think that the biggest sin that RedHat can be accused of is marketing, if that's a sin. MS does a great job of marketing to the masses, and RedHat seems like they are following in those footsteps as well. It's the only distro. I see at Best Buy, they've 'partnered' with just about every major player in the game, and they really seem to have their act together in this aspect. Being new to the Linux OS, I've been playing around with the different distros for the last couple of months, picked up Caldera 2.2 at Comdex on Monday, and find myself preferring what RedHat is doing. Although their setup procedure can be difficult, it seems to me to offer a nice balance of retaining user control and making the setup easy. Because of this and their agressive marketing strategy, it comes as no suprise that they seem to be everywhere. I think the backlash is more along the lines of when your favorite underground rock band gets popular and 'sells out' they're not cool anymore. To some extent this is true, but we all have to eat...