This is kind of interesting: the open-textbooks company Flat World Knowledge writes a guest-post about their business for opensource.com, a Red Hat sponsored community-site. Right after the post gets accepted and published, Red Hat people comment and take Flat World Knowledge to the doghouse over their “fauxpen” licensing (their CC licenses are the non-commercial flavour).

It’s almost as if they lured them into a trap.

Here’s what I think: the Red Hat guys have too much of a black-and-white view on licensing, but that doesn’t take away the fact that the Flat World Knowledge guys sadly have a very troublesome business model.