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What exactly is the problem?What exactly is the problem?Posted Aug 4, 2008 16:54 UTC (Mon) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)In reply to: What exactly is the problem? by ldo Parent article: Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux? (InternetNews)
> 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.
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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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