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Re: Linux Core Consortium



* Michael Meskes:

>> Instead, proprietary software vendors should ship all libraries in the
>> versions they need, or link their software statically.  I wouldn't
>
>>From a technical standpoint this may make sense, but not from the
> commercial standpoint ISVs have to take. Building your own environment
> to work on all distros is certainly much more work than just certifying
> for the one distribution you use in your development labs anyway.

LCC could concentrate on providing such a distribution-independent
execution environment, and perform the necessary integration tests for
commercially relevant distributions.

Just an idea.  I think this is far more promising than lobbying
distributions to delegate responsibility for core packages.



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