On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:47:13PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > Because otherwise debian is a small island of incompatibility. Firms > will produce their software as rpm for SuSe and RH amd64 and Debian > users will be left out. Since it is an issue only for commercial and closed software, why is it a problem? Free software can always be recompiled.