How? What profits are there? If you're gonna pick on RPM, what about the zip format? RTF format? The ASCII standard? I think we oughta put up a wall so that our air doesn't blow over there and give them oxygen. After all--we can't have our air being given to them for free, can we?
Simple, the Chinese didn't pay anything for it, but they can charge others for it. A great deal for the Chinese huh, no wonder they love it. Red Hat has no rights to stop them either, even though the Chinese use the Red Hat Package Manager, or anything else Red Hat developed, as much as they want, for free. Of course, to you, this is by design, so the system is working perfectly.
Hey, now. We're talking about Linux. I'm sure this is one of the few times he'd want to stay "on topic".