I am uncertain why the reaction to this announcement devolved into an argument about the EU and other silliness.
From the release it would appear that this is not EU-Linux but indeed an effort to start to eliminate those differing elements of Linux that may be standardized without undermining the freedom to have discrete distros. That is all to the good.
If, however, anyone tries to create an EU-centric version of Linux that attempts to impose (Bill Gates style) certain financially self-serving requirements upon other distros then they will harm the entire Linux community. 'nuff said ... doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, Turbolinux Partner To Create UnitedLinux, And Produce A Uniform Version Of Linux For Business Majority of enterprise system and software vendors including AMD, Borland Software Corporation, Computer Associates, Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu Japan, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, Progress Software, and SAP, support effort to create standard Linux platform