Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

Now we'll have the United Linux standard, the Red Hat/Mandrake standard, and the Debian standard.

Well, when everything has been sorted out, and reality has been distilled from all the marketing crap and posturing, it looks like we'll have three dominant implementations (RH/Mdk, UL, and Deb) of a single standard, the LSB. But it's hard to tell for sure, since UL is such a strange thing. From what I can tell their real aim is to create an implementation-based "standard" based on a standard-by-committee (LSB) to compete with Red Hat, the current defacto implementation-based "standard." That's weird.