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What exactly is the problem?What exactly is the problem?Posted Aug 4, 2008 10:51 UTC (Mon) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)Parent article: Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux? (InternetNews)
Aren't distro-specific issues the responsibility of the distro maintainers? There are already tens of thousands of software packages available across hundreds of distros, and it all just works, with no further effort on the part of the software developers--they just release the source code and let the maintainers do all the necessary distro-specific packaging. Oh, you mean you're talking about closed-source ISVs? Why didn't you say so?
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What exactly is the problem? Posted Aug 4, 2008 12:13 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] nail's head says ouch.
What exactly is the problem? Posted Aug 4, 2008 16:54 UTC (Mon) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] > Oh, you mean you're talking about closed-source ISVs? Why didn't you say so? The LSB has always been about making it easier closed-source for ISVs to package their applications for GNU/Linux distributions. If you don't care about them, you're better off ignoring LSB discussions altogether.
Even for closed-source ISVs... Posted Aug 4, 2008 17:20 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Do you know anything released for LSB? Adobe Reader, Google Earth, Opera, Skype, etc... all these programs are NOT targeted for LSB. If it does not concern open-source ISVs and closed-source ISVs are ignoring it too... then what's the point?
Even for closed-source ISVs... Posted Aug 5, 2008 1:12 UTC (Tue) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] > Do you know anything released for LSB? Our (grumpy) editor once noted that MySQL and Real Player had been certified LSB: http://lwn.net/Articles/197307/ > If it does not concern open-source ISVs and closed-source ISVs are ignoring it too... then what's the point? Search me... A while back, I became convinced that the LSB was a conspiracy to get all the people interested in running closed-source software on GNU/Linux distributions involved in a project that a) required vast amounts of time and energy to run and b) was doomed to fail, thus minimizing the harm they could do. I haven't seen anything since then that would make me change my mind.
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