> A more plausible scenario would be that people would use this freeware > gizmo to grab non-Red Hat packages, bork their system, then flood the > mailing lists and bugzilla with problems. For example, I see messages in > the FreshRPMS.net archives about people using apt getting bit by the > i386/i686 downgrade bug in glibc. This what Red Hat's Licensing agreement is for - to protect themselves from morons. > Or worse yet, one of these third party packages has a Trojan/Backdoor that > the unwashed masses think came from Red Hat and Red Hat gets a ton of bad > press. Then red hat better get out of the freesoftware business if this their concern. -sv
