Linux Standard Base 4 is coming in for a landing

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 16, 2008 8:01 PM EDT
ComputerWorld; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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If you write software for the Mac, you must obey Apple's rules. Period. End of statement. If you write software for Windows, you have more leeway, but Microsoft pretty much calls the shots. If you write software for Linux though you can pretty much do whatever you want, except, of course, you shouldn't. Because if you do re-invent the wheel every time you write for Linux, we end up with software that doesn't work or play well with other Linux software. That's where the LSB (Linux Standard Base) comes in.

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