> RH has the ability to change this at any time. ability? yes. willingness? no. > It is not - RH has had no problems in adding yum support and has no > problem in adding and removing other packages at any time at RH's free > will. Do you know why they had no issue adding yum support? B/c it could be covered internally. If it broke and I wasn't around to fix it - they could take care of it. 100+ lines of C++ they were not interested in maintaining. > For example instead of adding yum and keeping up2date, RH could have > tried to help apt. - IMO, this is all politics and not at all > technically motivated. IMO you don't know what you're talking about. -sv