Re: real LSB compliance
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> As far as "commercial focus of LSB", that's not really a technical
> argument, but a fundamental one about goals. One of the major reasons
> why Unix lost the desktop to Windows was because of fragmentation of
> the Unix vendors.
Yes, but those systems were proprietary. Where the source of the system and
the application is available, binary compatibility becomes much less important
than on proprietary systems.
Marcus
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