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Re: [Lsb-wg] opposition to LSB 2.0 rc1
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: alan at lxorguk dot ukuu dot org dot uk, taggart at carmen dot fx dot hp dot com, anderson at freestandards dot org, bkoz at redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:43:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [Lsb-wg] opposition to LSB 2.0 rc1
> > 2.) The ISO PAS submission needs to happen before October.
>
> The ISO PAS cannot pass when ISO members are being told by the people
> who write the code that the LSB 2.0 is broken. Certainly at the moment
> I'd advise the UK ISO people to take a "wait and see" attitude and not
> move until the matter is resolved, otherwise they end up rubberstamping
> a dead duck, and thats not good for anyone.
Having attended both the LSG and LRG meetings held by SC22 to discuss
the possible standardisation of Linux, I know that they were not widely
known about or attended by the open source community. The PAS alternative
was knowingly chosen by the FSG and strongly pushed by the US delegations
as the only viable approach. Thus, I'm not surprised by these developments.
We held a BOFS at OLS last week to discuss these issues, and to make
it known that participation at the committee level in Canada is not
as formidable as it might seem.
I personally think the LSB needs to broken up into smaller components.
Dave
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