Open source is a development methodology, and choice is not guaranteed by a development methodology.

The leaders named here represent some of the brightest minds in the world of Linux and open standards. Their experience, insight and guidance will prove invaluable in growing the Free Standards Group and achieving our...

One of the big things that?s difficult is consistency, and that?s Window?s biggest strength.

One of the big things that’s difficult is consistency, and that’s Window’s biggest strength.

Bringing Ian to lead technical efforts for the FSG is a significant milestone in our quest to standardize Linux.

[The new LSB desktop group will be dealing with more than just KDE and GNOME issues though. It will be dealing with] all issues dealing with interoperability, … everyone at the table, and motivated to...

The reason why we chose Beijing for the lab is that China has achieved remarkable progress in the research and development of Linux OS.

Microsoft can compete against any single Linux vendor, but they can’t compete a global Linux ecosystem with universal interoperability,

This is an unstoppable force globally.

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

As the standards are provided and then adopted, the Linux desktop will snowball. Microsoft can compete with a Sun, a Red Hat or a Novell, but they won’t be able to compete with an ecosystem...

What our standards will do is enable desktop application vendors to easily target the Linux ecosystem, not just a single vendor, to make sure they run across all the different distributions,

We’ve reached the tipping point with the LSB. If you’re an application developer targeting the Linux opportunity, your job just got a lot easier.

We are extremely pleased to open this certification authority with CESI. The Chinese have taken an active and leading role in using the Linux Standard Base and driving certifications to our standard. This certification lab...