Back Cover Quotes

The quotes listed below were written in April 2004 for the back cover of the LSB book. This is an invariant section per the GFDL license and should not be modified or used for new promotions.

Community-built software and community-built standards are two sides of the same coin.
Standards help ensure that the freedom to invent, the essence of Open Source and Linux,
doesn't compromise the ability to write software that works together effectively. The LSB is
an important set of standards for the Linux community.

Brian Behlendorf, Apache Software Foundation, CollabNet

With the recent success of the LSB and the adoption on a wide scale of the LSB standards,
building applications that are standards-compliant has become a much easier and more
necessary part of the development on Linux as a platform

Jeffrey "Hemos" Bates, Editor, Slashdot.org

In the days before the LSB, every change, every improvement we wanted to make
to our Linux product was subject to somebody saying "But wait! I depend on
that!" The LSB laid out what interfaces were defined and how they should be
used. Since the LSB was adopted, we and others have been free to innovate
without fear of breaking somebody else's assumptions. The success of the LSB
recommended it as the starting point for the US DoD's Common Operating
Environment (COE) specification for Linux. Without the LSB, there would be no
COE-certified Red Hat products today.

Michael Tiemann, Chief Technology Officer, Red Hat, Inc.

As an active LSB member, SUSE LINUX is committed both to providing customers
with standardized Linux technology and to simplifying ISVs' and IHVs' Linux
certification efforts. The availability of common standards plays a decisive
role in the proliferation of Linux operating systems and applications on server
and client systems worldwide, and we appreciate the LSB project's work in
developing and promoting these standards.

Markus Rex, General Manager of SUSE LINUX for Novell

We are very happy to see the progress of LSB, both in the definition of the
standard and it its broad support. LSB is an important part of our strategy
and Mandrakesoft will continue to support the efforts of LSB to define a
standardized ABI and encourage ISVs to build and certify to this standard.

Francois Bancilhon, Cheif Executive Officer, MandrakeSoft

The launch of the LSB is a significant development for the Linux community.
For the very first time in history, a common binary computing environment
will be able to be shared across different systems from different vendors.
The LSB will play a pivotal role in ensuring the proper development of the
Linux market. Sun Wah Linux is excited about this phenomenom and is dedicated
to supporting LSB's future efforts and endeavours.

Alex BANH, C.E.O., Sun Wah Linux, P.R.C.