On Lu, 20 oct 14, 14:27:59, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Lu, 20 oct 14, 09:49:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>Well, it's worth noting that in many areas of endeavor, users, or user > >>communities, write specifications/standards that all players have to meet. > >>So, for example, when one buys an ethernet card - vendors really do not > >>really have a choice as to whether or not to implement the standards. > >Not a good example: Ethernet is an IEEE standard and as far as I > >understand from Wikipedia this is not a user association, but a > >professional association. > > > >>With Linux distros, including the kernel and implementing the LSB are pretty > >>much things everyone has to meet (with a few notable exceptions like > >>GNU/kFreeBSD - though arguably that's not Linux). > >Would you please be so kind to explain how systemd breaks LSB? > > > > These are both situations where folks other than "those who do the work" > have a lot of say in what work gets done. According to Wikipedia: - the IEEE has about 425000 members. Do you mean none of them are actually working in the industry? See highly unlikely to me. - the LSB is a joint project of several Linux distributions. Ironically: "The LSB has been criticized for not taking input from projects, most notably the Debian project, outside the sphere of its member companies." Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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