Uh, so they will be perfectly happy to pay for something (not to mention change their code and go through the fun of dealing with contracts) they were previously getting for free - rather than, say, send a nice email to a private address or some relationship manager. Yes, this makes total sense.

There sure are a lot of HN folks out there who apparently understand the ins and outs of corporate OSS way better than I do. Apparently I'm a wide-eyed naif who thought that OSS was all about community, and need to be set straight by one HN cynic after another.