Another LSB editorial at Freshmeat

Our sister publication Freshmeat has another LSB editorial. This one emphasizes the need for tests of standard APIs (something with which I would agree), but also appears to advocate the same level of compatibility as in the DOS world... Although compatibility is nice, it is not some Holy Grail. Microsoft is killing ISA, DOS, and eventually Win16 because it's a mighty pain to keep things compatible. A better solution seems to me to be a strong spec, but also open source code to avoid the need for legacy API horrors are needed to keep binary compatibility.