On Friday 31 May 2002 05.07, dep wrote:
begin steve's quote: | I don't know how you read that into my statement when I clearly | said: | | "..the resulting offering will be marketed and sold by each of the | four partners under their own brands." | | Do you see unitedlinux there?
no. which is the fault of your quoting skills. because the unitedlinux distros are all to carry the brand "powered by unitedlinux."
now. again. each and every ceo of the linux companies involved in this thing said to me, personally, today, in front of many witnesses, that there will be no desktop unitedlinux.
Quoting from your story on linuxandmain <quote> Each distribution will continue to market its own brand of Linux, with the "powered by UnitedLinux" seal affixed. They will share a core development group, however. The new distribution will be based on the latest stable Linux kernel, glibc-2.2.5, and include gcc-3.1. "We will include in 'UnitedLinux' desktops, both KDE and GNOME, but will not include something like OpenOffice or other tools," said SuSE's Burtscher. "Because this is something where we think the customers should have a choice and all the four partners should be able to differientiate and do dome value add-on, but the basic functionality like a desktop will be there." However, Love stessed that there will be no desktop "UnitedLinux." "Each of the parties has the ability to create derivative works that meet the workstation-client market more specifically," he said. "They will not be branded 'UnitedLinux,' because this initiative is to satisfy the ISV and OEM. We want to get applications to the platform and we believe that will start at the server level first. Each of us will continue to provide workstation products as well." "There will be a separate version for consumers, as it is today, but this is not labeled 'UnitedLinux'," said Burtscher. "That's a separate story here. 'UnitedLinux' is enterprise only." </quote> I *still* read this as saying that the UnitedLinux idea is a sort reference implementation of an expanded LSB. an "überLSB" if you will, being a superset of the actual LSB. The final quote, by Burtscher, is especially telling. He says there will be a version, just not called UnitedLinux. I read this as saying that SuSE, Caldera, TurboLinux and Conectiva won't be throwing away their trademarks, but will use them in conjunction with this standardization move. Of course, an official (or semi-official) clarification would be nice //Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'