A motherly request

Indeed. There was a time when I thought it was just hilarious to misquote biblical verse implying Gates was some satanic figure, or just to hate on Microsoft on principle. I was a lot younger, and far more naive then. Now, I realize they're just a corporation in a business community that we are also part of, and we disagree in how one should go about implement, distribute, and market software, and so on. But we should just accept that for a moment and ask ourselves if - from their viewpoint - any of this process is odd. To me, wrapping things in a CAB and so on sounds a lot like me saying "oh, just wrap it in an RPM..." and then having someone who prefers ipkg files complaining I am doing something strange.