The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

[Derek Broughton]

Christopher Chan wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Amit Kumar wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> There are plenty of standardization efforts and international united
>>>> linux users efforts.
>>>>       
>>> Examples please.
>>>     
>>
>>   
> [snipped Linux standardization efforts from list]
>> ODF
>>   
> That is not Linux distro specific. We just happen to benefit from it.

True.  otoh, I was responding to a request for examples of "standardization 
efforts" - he didn't say they had to only apply to Linux.
> 
>> POSIX
>>   
> That is NOT a linux related effort. POSIX was in place before Linux was
> even conceived. Linux mostly maintains compliance with posix so there
> won't be too much trouble porting UNIX software over to Linux.

Absolutely, but it's actually more directly relevant to the posters question 
than ODF, because we _do_ generally try to maintain posix compatibility (I 
recall fairly recently Torvalds saying something to the effect that we 
shouldn't insist on it when POSIX is wrong - but that just underlines how 
much we _do_ use it)
> 
> 
> The Linux kernel following the posix standard has no bearing on
> standardization between Linux distros which must take place at a higher
> level than the kernel found in the rest of your list.

That seems like a non sequitur.  It's just another form of th 
standardization effort that the poster thinks doesn't exist in Linux.
-- 
derek