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Microsoft Debases Linux Standards
Linux vendors have rejected Microsoft's claim that commercial pressures mean they will struggle to cooperate. ZDNet UK comments that this is a change in Microsoft policy. Until now Linux has been bad because it's non-commercial, almost un-American in its cooperative nature. Now we see that competition is bad, because it encourages people to differentiate products.
Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, said on Friday that there is a risk that Linux will end up fragmented like the Unix operating system, a charge that Linux vendors have robustly denied.
Various Linux vendors including Red Hat, Novell SuSE and Mandrakesoft support Linux Standards Base, a software blueprint that seeks to standardise some aspects of Linux to make it easier for software vendors to create programs that run on various different versions of the open source operating system.
Source: ZDNet UK
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