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The desktop app is synaptic, works with Debian and Redhat for certain, haven't yet tried with SuSE, etc.

I think it's worthwhile to discriminate between the kind of sanctioned investing that protected vehicles like common stock are good for and Venture Capital (VeeCee, singular) from "Angels" and Venture Capitalists (VeeCees, plural).

I believe you should be able to sue the investors in a corporation if the corporation causes damages beyond the value of the corporation when the courts order judgements to be paid. For example, if an investor puts up some VC toward a caper with a big upside, then the caper flops, then the victims are left holding the bag: punish them with a sliding-scale fraction of their revenues like a crippling form of income tax. Use the money to hire cops to pick through their garbage looking for something to bust them on.

let's just assume money and energy are the same. If a guy on the street says "I got this machine, and all I need is a socket to plug it into. It'll run up your power bill, but if it gets up to umpteen thousand RPMs it will start kicking out SOLID GOLD!" I get excited, maybe because I believe the guy or maybe because I saw him wink and I want in on the second-level of the pyramid scheme. I invite him to plug in on my meter, and BAM! It explodes, showering the countryside with toxic heavy metal waste like a volcano of chemical waste. I should expect to be put in stocks and caned for my irresponsibility, and I should expect to have my accounts emptied to pay for the cleanup. I should expect a long prison sentence if the fugazi cost someone their life.

Build high, Build high!!!

If you guys are so up in your panties about this move, go elsewhere for support. You can get updates elsewhere. I've successfully been maintaining servers in the 30 or 40 just using apt-get and kickstart -- for free.

Get started here:

Freshrpms.net
DAG RPMS
ATrpms
newrpms
KDE For Redhat/Fedora
JPackage
CCRMA (Karma)
Gstreamer
Kernel 2.6.0-test

And if you want up2date style GUI, get synaptic from ATrpms.

Atlantis RPM's