Linux programming standards

[qball]

some and yes.

Linux being open source, will always be tweaked and customized, of course.

[vass0922]

http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_641584_6995_1-3135.html

What do you think of the standards?
Do you think people will follow them (including all the big guys) and do you think it will help the movement?

[vass0922]

Maybe somebody could enlighten me as to why somebody would not want to stand by these standards?

I realize there are some companies out there that like to "bend" the standards (won't name any names to their liking coughkerberoscough, but being a system developed by the masses it only makes sense to me to have standards so anybody can develop for it and have it work across the entire operating system w/o having to have 4 different installations to install on a specific distro.

Granted I'm not a business trying to make my distro "better" than the rest buy why not follow the standards?


Some "enlightenment" is appreciated

[qball]

I'm game.

Standards, like rules, laws, godspeak, are subject to following said "standards, rules, laws, godspeak".

When following fails, all heck seems to follow...

[Cody]

I think standards will help Linux a ton (Rock on SuSE!)

Microsoft won't like it, but, as far as I'm concerned, if they don't shape up pretty soon, bye bye Windows!

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