On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Ralf Flaxa wrote:
> Dear Evan, > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:17:42AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > > > One could easily suggest that Linux ISVs already have had a "standard" > > with which to work -- the Red Hat way of doing things. If LSB fails to > > deliver -- and indeed what's happening by those who can't wait -- without > > a mutually-agreed standard, ISVs (and many free-software developers too) > > are simply targeting Red Hat and letting other distros figure out how to > > cope with being Red Hat compatible. > > Well, this is partially true only. Other distros have also brought products > to Linux, first on their platform, where RedHat then had to figure out how > to make that work. I don't think this has been done intentionally. I rather > think every distro just tried to help to bring more software to the Linux > platform. But I agree with you that it is bad anyway if it works on some > distros only and thus only some Linux users can benefit from it and not all. > > The goal should be to bring as many apps to Linux as possible and make them > run on any distro available. > > That is the reason why LSB is so important and why all distros are supporting > it. Even though many people out there try to spread the "it does not move > fast enough, so it will not work" message I can tell you that there is a > great deal of commitment from all distros now trying to make it happen. > > Caldera has now 4 people working fulltime on that and other distros have > agreed to also put more engineering resources behind it. > > Maybe someone from SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake or Turbo could comment on that > to make people see, that this is really the case ;-) I am completely convinced that all Linux distributions are committed to interoperability. We are all working on making this happen. I concur with the above remarks and want this to be clearly seen as the position TurboLinux has taken also. > > You will see the fruits of it soon, so if you want to help then do rather > play the advocate for it than questioning it publically. I appreciate your > input and comments, but I feel they have an "undertone" of pessimism. > > > > In addition, LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software > > > vendors to port and write products for Linux. > > > > Pardon? Since when is LSB taking a co-ordinating an ISV advocacy role? I > > don't recall that being determnined, ever. It certainly wasn't part of the > > original endorsement by LI. > > Look at the mission statement at www.linuxbase.org. This message is there > for a long time already. >
