LSB to Provide Standards as Optional Modules

An anonymous reader writes "The LSB will begin providing certain standards as optional modules to the core LSB standard that will enable standards flexibility and allow for a wider variety of standards, eWeek is reporing Free Standards Group officials said at the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit today. The article goes on to say that the FSG is also looking at possibly franchising out the application certification component of the LSB to the distribution providers themselves."

Comments

Re:Wait just a second...

[aeakett]

My favorite part was "wider variety of standards". You know what they say... "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."

Sounds funny but makes sense...

[crazy blade]

The LSB will begin providing certain standards as optional modules to the core LSB standard that will enable standards flexibility and allow for a wider variety of standards...

Upon first reading the above I almost laughed. What good are standards if they are flexible and come in great variety? Then I did what no other self-respecting slashdotter would dare to do: I started RTFAing...

What these guys are saying is we should have different standards for different types of machines (e.g. Servers vs Desktops) which are based on a common denominator. Therefore the addons to the standard may go into greater detail for that type of usage.

I guess they want to make the standard stronger in some directions, while at the same time not encumbering types of distros which need not concern themselves with the gory details of something they don't include. I guess that sounds reasonable...