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

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
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>> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>>> Amit Kumar wrote:
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>>>>> There are plenty of standardization efforts and international united
>>>>> linux users efforts.
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>>>> Examples please.
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>> [snipped Linux standardization efforts from list]
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>>> ODF
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>> That is not Linux distro specific. We just happen to benefit from it.
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> True.  otoh, I was responding to a request for examples of "standardization 
> efforts" - he didn't say they had to only apply to Linux.
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Oh, I went up thread...Amit said: "

I meant a standardization effort for

applications on the various Linux flavors, collaboration and putting a
united front for proprietary OSes (something like the role EU performs for
European nations)."

hmm...proprietary Oses...missed that.
>>> POSIX
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>> 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.
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> 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)
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>> 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.
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> That seems like a non sequitur.  It's just another form of th 
> standardization effort that the poster thinks doesn't exist in Linux.
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Sorry, missed the inclusion of 'proprietary OSes' which I shall 
conveniently define as UNIX flavours like Mac OS X and Solaris 
(nevermind Windows had some posix compatibility of some sort once)