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Subject: Re: Signal 11
To: miquels@traveler.cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Yes, but 2.96 is also binary incompatible with all non-redhat distro's.
> And since redhat is _the_ distro that commercial entities use to
> release software for, this was very arguably a bad move.

Except you conveniently ignore a few facts

o	Someone else moved to 2.95 not RH . In fact some of us felt 2.95 wasnt 
	fit to ship at the time. 

o	We tell vendors to build RPMv3 , glibc 2.1.x

o	Vendors not being stupid understand that they have a bigger market
	share if they do that.

Alan

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