Any unsolicited mass mail is by definition spam. I did not solicit this mail, and I know it was sent to others, too, so it's spam.
Also, how is Red Hat to know whether you are a non-US citizen?
They could research the people they're going to give the offer. For example, my non-USness is quite obvious if you're a human being looking for info on me. If they had done that, I wouldn't call this spam.
Agreed. It appears that they sent it to every Debian developer. I have never expressed any interest in RH stock nor would I be eligible to buy some, since I'm a Finn. Yet they send this to me. It was spam. RedHat is a spammer.
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Also, how is Red Hat to know whether you are a non-US citizen?
They could research the people they're going to give the offer. For example, my non-USness is quite obvious if you're a human being looking for info on me. If they had done that, I wouldn't call this spam.
If Red Hat wants to reward me for my work with free software in general and Debian in particular, they should contact me personally.
Tell me, do you also flame people who invite you to parties on nights you are busy?
Assuming they don't spam me with it, no, I don't.
I'm glad I've never been a RH user.
No.
I 've only gotten Debian to install in 8 meg successfully when it was installing from a local harddrive.
I have installed Debian 1.2 and 2.0 in four MB successfully. You did use the low-memory boot disk, I hope?