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ALERT! Abort RPM nonsense now!

Attention!

I would like to gently remind all of my fellow Debianites that RPM
stands for Redhat Package Manager and that Redhat and its associated
products are very very likely to be the trademarked intellectual
property of Redhat. "But RPM is GPL'd!" you say. Well, that is fine
and well but will have little bearing if the choose to enforce other
legal avenues.

Until Redhat serves up a big fat contract to the world declaring RPM
an international standard that is governed by some open standards body
and that the RPM name and .rpm extension are used only to indicate
compliance to that standard (as is the case with ada for instance) I
wouldn't officially touch .rpm's with my lawyer's 400 foot pole.

Even if they did take the above steps I guess that would... oops!
that's POSIX packages isn't it? Well, forget about RedHat.

Now let's address the real problems:

1) a slightly rusty dpkg.
2) piss poor marketing on Debian's part.

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Ean Schuessler                                                Freak
Novare International Inc.                             Freak Central
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