News

News of the release of the first LSB specification reaches Norway in this July 4, 2001 article that appeared on Hardware.no. (Note: Article appears in Norwegian.)

June 2, 2001 - CNET heralds the Free Standards Group’s release of version 1.0 of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) specification. We’ve done it! Hurray!
Highlights from the article:

An industry group has released the first version of a standard designed to make it easier to write Linux software by guaranteeing that different versions of Linux work similarly.

Evan Leibovitch continues his interpretation of the history of the LSB. He argues that “the LSB has been working on the tough and unsexy tasks of defining a standard, creating a sample implementation, and testing for compliance.” (Unsexy?) Evan also hits on several recent LSB milestones (LDPS 1.1, Li18nux, FHS 2.2), applauds the participation of The Open Group, and pines for the anticipated release of LSB 1.0. (For now, he says, “I think it has been correct to do it right rather than rush it.”)

SD Times has an interesting article by J.D. Hildebrand that lists what he views as the key “organized consortia, work groups and standard bodies” that “loosely govern” the open-source world. As of December 1, 2000, when the article was originally published, the Free Standards Group was at the top of his list (well, nearly).
Here’s how he describes the Free Standards Group: