Submission + - Red Hat Claims RPM 5 is a Fork (internetnews.com)
darthcamaro writes: Here's an interesting one. Every Red Hat, SUSE and Mandriva user uses RPM as their default package manager. As it turns out the latest version of RPM, RPM version is officially considered to be a fork by Red Hat — remember that RPM originally stood for Red Hat Package Manager.
From the article:
"It's pointless to waste the effort and the bottom line is all these people are welcome at rpm5.org anytime they want," former Red Hat employee Jeff Johnson, who had led the RPM.org development effort for a few years told InternetNews.com. "It's not going to happen because it's really important for Red Hat to re-establish and send a message to its customers that it is the Red Hat Package Manager. So I'm not going to hold my breath, a lot of this is just smoke and mirrors on the surface."
From the article:
"It's pointless to waste the effort and the bottom line is all these people are welcome at rpm5.org anytime they want," former Red Hat employee Jeff Johnson, who had led the RPM.org development effort for a few years told InternetNews.com. "It's not going to happen because it's really important for Red Hat to re-establish and send a message to its customers that it is the Red Hat Package Manager. So I'm not going to hold my breath, a lot of this is just smoke and mirrors on the surface."