Re: Proposal: Source file package format
++ Enables convergence towards Linux Standard Base (LSB)
Reducing incompatibility between the variants of the GNU operating
system that use Linux as the kernel is a useful job. The GNU Project
would be happy to cooperate with other people on this, if they
approach us in a cooperative spirit respecting what we've done.
However, the Linux Standards Base decided to standardize the GNU
system as if the GNU Project had nothing to do with it.
They have a right to do that if they wish. GNU is free software, and
that means people have the right to make their own versions without
even consulting us. But that's not a friendly approach, so we are not
going to treat their choices as standards to be followed.
If a good idea comes from the LSB, we won't reject it for that. It
would be childish to reject a good idea just because of who proposed
it. But we will not adopt it *because* of the LSB's decision.
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