> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Buell [mailto:alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:27 AM
> To: Chris Ricker
> Cc: Linux kernel
> Subject: Re: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
> Furthermore, essential files that are meant to be part of
> Linux shouldn't be distributed in a format proprietary to RedHat. It's
fine
> if they use RPM on their distributions but DO NOT LOCK the rest of us
> OUT!
It's not a proprietary format. It's Open Source. Anyone can download the
source and play with it in the usual manner.
You just need to install the "rpm" commmand, in the same manner that you
need
to install "tar" and "gunzip" to deal with .tar.gz archives.
It's hardly evil.
Tris.
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