The LSB is in transition.

Our sister publication Freshmeat is carrying a (last?) editorial on LSB which announces the death of the LSB: few people felt it was necessary to have a very tightly defined "standard distribution" from which all other distributions would diverge only a little. Indeed, Linux's diversity enables Linux to be tailored for different applications or cultural needs. A common filesystem/library policy, the LCS will resolve most of the compatability issues. Vendors who insist on supplying binaries only will know which libraries they can depend on being in the system, and which they should statically link in. Update: The LSB is not officially dead, but "in transition". Nevertheless the above editorial blows some rather large holes into its current incarnation.