[__jal]

There is a huge gulf between wanting your customers to pay what they owe you and this sort of "audit".

I make a serious point of doing what I can to steer my employers away from any outfit that believes adversarial relations with their own customers are ideal.

Screw that; I want to compete with my real competitors, not waste money on lawyers fighting my own supply chain.

So yeah, I want to see if they go full-Larry Ellison here, but I likely longer recommend anything Redhat and will look at moving away from the things we do use.

Sad, really.

[hermitdev]

I turned down a job offer with such an adversarial company this year, only interviewed so my recruiter would keep sending interviews.

I knew the company by reputation: that they had a habbit of suing customers for patent violations. The commute would have been easier. Bit longer (train) than the job I took (driving 15 miles opposite traffic).

The job I took pays $20k less a year, but is worth it when factoring in less unpaid overtime, shorter commute amd reduced stress. My wife wanted me to take the higher paying job, but after explaining that, per hour, I'd be making less and only home for 1 waking hour during the week, she agreed. Also have better health insurance at the lower paying job.