On Friday 31 May 2002 03.01, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
My only comment on UnitedLinux is WHY/WHO told Ransom Love to be the spokesman for this. I think it would have had a warmer reception if one of the SuSE'ers were the spokesperson and they spoke Ancient Greek only. This guy is going to ended up doing for UnitedLinux what he did for Caldera.. *sigh*
What could happen? To me, this sounds very much like a reference implementation of the LSB. At the start of the year the distributions talked about how at the end of the year they would all conform to the LSB. I think this is what we're seeing. The press release said the end user versions of the various distributions wouldn't be affected. I see this as a non-event. It sounds like actions geared towards software development houses such as Oracle and Adobe. A standard base they can work against, that ensures compatibility with distributions. For me, as an end user, I very much suspect I won't see any difference. Of course, Philip said he'd comment on it. I could be wrong. Which is it, Philip? //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.'