[Lsb-wg] opposition to LSB 2.0 rc1

[anderson@freestandards.org]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 anderson@freestandards.org wrote:
>
> > The purpose of the ISO PAS submittion, is to add legitimacy to Linux.
> > There are groups of potential Linux users that are prohibited from
> > considering Linux becasue it doesn't have an ISO stamp on it. Submitting
> > the LSB to ISO will close this gap.
>
> What ISO standards for operating system binary interfaces are those groups
> of potential users using at present?

None for _binary_ interfaces.

The commercial UNIXes and even MS Windows claim ISO/POSIX conformance for
source APIs, which is sufficient to satisfy most procurment rules.




                                Stuart

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