Yet Another Call for Linux Standardization

An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article Commentary: United We Stand...the Division in the Linux World, in which David Meyer argues that UnitedLinux will provide standardization for the Linux community that will allow it to win the desktop market from Windows. The article has a number of supporting comments, but then this one particular negative comment that disagrees with David. This particular comment offers an alternative view on the need for standardization. This aternative view that is put forward simply argues that 'Over what is almost twelve years we have pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps. We have done this using a development model that allows us to produce software that proprietary vendors cannot compete with', and then summarizing that 'the Linux community does not need to set up businesses with the specific intention of trying to "win" users from Microsoft; all we have to do is continue to develop software in the same way, and the users will make the switch all by themselves'."

Comments

Missed the point, missed the point, missed ....

[EmbeddedJanitor]

You miss the point. Nobody is saying that there should be one type of Linux, but that they should work with the same software.

To use your analogies:

Different TVs, but they all can view the same channels and use the same antenna connectors.

Different VCRs but they all use the same tapes and work with any TV.

Different cars, but they all use the same gas and standardised oil grades.

Differnt refridgerators, but they all use the same electricity.

That's the kind of similarity you need to standardise in user space.