Nah, they simply seem to come from Debian land and hence have a Debian-centric view of the world. Ubuntu surely is also very supportive of firms willing to announce a swith to their distro. ;)
About the creative writing ("darker side of the net") I take it as just a tongue in cheek comment. But someone should tell them that there is plenty of light on RPM-land (considering they put Fedora, RHEL and CentOS in the same bag).
Red Hat Is Still On Target To Nearly Triple Revenues In Three Years, CEO Says
Julie Bort Apr. 2, 2013, 5:06 PM 1,362
Red Hat, the first and only open source software company to reach over $1 billion in revenue, is still on track to nearly triple its revenue to $3 billion by 2016, CEO Jim Whitehurst said in an interview.
I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT, thus, that the lights won't go out in "the dark side of the Internet" ;p
FC
-- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell