Foundation aims to keep Linux corporate

[Mercury]

January 29, 2007 (InfoWorld) -- What do you get if you cross an open-source development consortium with an organization that promotes free standards? Answer: You get a Linux advocacy group. Or so it seems.

On the surface, the union of Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group seems like a natural fit. Open standards and open-source software are two great ideas that go great together.

But wouldn't it make more sense to call the merged organization the Open Source and Standards Lab, or the Free Software and Standards Group? Why did they have to go and call it the Linux Foundation?

On the one hand, it seems a shame that the group should narrow the scope of its activities to focus on a single project. Linux may be the open-source poster child du jour, but it's hardly the only worthwhile project around. In fact, the Free Software Foundation would remind us that most of the software that makes up what we call a "Linux distribution" was never written by Linux kernel developers in the first place.

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[OulZac]

Thanks for the read/link!

It was only a matter of time before Linux was going to be turned into the "shinny object". This is a positive and a negative really. The positive being, the spread of knowledge about Linux and the use will increase to do the "corporate commercialism" of the name "Linux". The company's involved such as HP, IBM and Intel will help get open source programs out to the masses also. But while this is also happening, Linux will turn into the "Trojan Horse" that gets these bigwigs market shares up, in turn increasing there wallets, while riding the coattails of "open source", which is the exact opposite of what open source is all about.

But bothers me the most, no one who is actively involved in the open source community or the Linux community is involved in this "project".

It will be interesting to see how this turns out and what becomes of the Linux Foundation.

[Lyte]

Excellent points Oulzac!! Yeah, you'd think Linux was some kind of new toy (shiny object) they just discovered! Curious how this band wagon gets strung together as soon as their's the potention of making money.

Lyte