(Ted Harding) wrote:
Well, I went and looked at their Web site. They're clearly at the very beginning and hardly anybody belongs to the LSA. There are no "ratified issues" and no "open issues". Everything to play for.
Despite Darren's disparaging comments, the arguments on their home page to the effect that, with increasing commercial interest in Linux the firms porting their stuff to Linux will need to know what they are porting it to, are sound.
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LSA may not be the people to provide the standard we need, and they may not do what we would wish with the standard they come up with; but something is essential. That part of their manifesto can't be faulted.
They may be sound, but *who* are the LSA? That's what I want to know. I agree that the Linux community must come to a consensus about what should be in the os and how things should work, but I don't like the idea of charging people for a say in the matter. Does anyone know who started the LSA? The "From the Editor" section in LJ (#53) brought up the issue that have so many different distributions hurts Linux by creating competition between each other. There is also mention of a Linux Standard Base System Project, which to me would seem the way to go on developing a standard for Linux. Mark --inquiring minds want to know - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e