Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: Who sets Standards? | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:40:28 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
| |
In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.980915155439.12281A-100000@ariel.imagegroup.com>, Dav e DeMaagd writes: +----- | > Who the hell are the guys from | > http://www.linuxstandards.org/ ? | | My take on it is that they are a serious bunch of @ssholes, trying to get | on the Linux bandwagon, and make the most of it for themselved. AFAIK, | there is not one of the 'big names' in the Linux developer/advocacy | community that has supported them. With any luck they will be dead in the | water, or anything they do will be a moot point. +--->8
Yup. Best guess is that they heard that IBM might be interested in a Linux distribution, and decided that if they threw together something that looked like an IBM-like stuffy standards organization then *they* could be the source of the distribution.
Given that IBM seems to be batting zero outside the mainframe market (their NT group is doing its damnedest to wipe out the RS/6000 and AS/400) I have to wonder just what they think they'd achieve even if they succeeded.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |