[notice: this is a modified version of another post] Hi, The "Linux Standards Association" was just announced on slashdot and is drawing a lot of flack. I think the Linux community needs to take notice. Read <A HREF="http://www.linuxstandards.org"><A HREF="http://www.linuxstandards.org</A">http://www.linuxstandards.org and see for yourself what's up. Reminds me of what almost (maybe did) happen to the X standard a few months back. They have all the bad charms, like vetos for paying members, the right to ban uncooperative members and (TM)'s all over the place. The fact remains that these people claim to provide a standards and reference organisation for all Linux and they intend to sell (literally) their concept to Big Corporations interested in porting their software to Linux. Before they get a foothold in too many doorsteps, SuSE, Red Hat, Debian and the users and developers in the Linux Community should take a good look at what's going on here and make a firm statement, ideally not in an uncontrolled screaming manner (which is probably going to happen in places like c.o.l.advocacy anyway.) This looks like something that needs to be dealt with, either way. ---------------------------------- <A HREF="http://benham.net/index.html"><A HREF="http://benham.net/index.html</A">http://benham.net/index.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++ E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e