John;

I wholly agree with you.   I am perfectly fine with RedGate offering their products to influential people to generate "buzz".  I am perfectly fine with you requesting discounts with your YHA card, as that is the intended purpose of the organization. 

However, Dinakar is not requesting a copy for evaluation.  He has already developed a solution using trial version, and is now moaning (he did say ) he cannot deploy it because its not free.  If its useful for his production, he should pay for it.  Life is not free (or even open source).