Re: Compatibtibility / Certification

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Andrew Sobala wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 10:34 +0100, McNutt Duncan wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there any sort of systematic co-working on marketing or technical
> > specs with other groups such as UserLinux or Debian?
> >
> > I was following a "UserLinux compatibility sticker" discussion on the
> > UserLinux forum (which is of course Gnome based).  It would seem to me
> > that cross-group cooperation on such issues would increase marketing
> > impact and insure homogeneous technical specs
> >    
>
> The Place where free software desktop software agree on technical specs
> is freedesktop.org. I don't know how relevant this is to distributions.
>
>  
The Free Standards Group, which administers the Linux Standards Base 
specs, is getting into the desktop space too.  I believe there are 
several gnome-affiliated folks on various workgroups - at least, there 
are several GNOME folks (myself included) on the Accessibility Workgroup.

- Bill