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“The achievement of LSB certification is a natural extension of our leadership as the only embedded Linux vendor commercially supporting OSDL CGL 2.0.”— Larry Weidman, CEO of TimeSys Corp.

Paula Rooney for CRN reports that IBM will be launching “Chiphopper”, a new program that will be “a reference implementation of the LSB that tests C and C++ code specifically for IBM systems

Eweek asks “will a revised LSB help keep Linux from suffering from the fragmentation that perpetually bedeviled Unix?” Read the answer in the February 3 2005 issue of Eweek.

Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, says the LSB “will be a big challenge for the Linux community — commercial advantage is what most organisations are looking for.” However, as ZDNet UK reports in its February 1st 2005 issue, this charge is being rejected by major Linux vendors who have demonstrated their ability to cooperate by pledging support to the LSB.