Nicholas Petreley, the founding editor of LinuxWorld, has published an editorial that is highly critical of the current efforts by the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project. The LSB, observes Petreley, is doomed to irrelevance unless it can establish a more aggressive leadership and agenda. Petreley writes . . .

“My goal is simple: I'm out to drum up some support for Linux Standard Base (LSB), and I'm out to give LSB a serious kick in the keester . . .”

“My first message [is] to encourage others to support LSB. But by support I don't just mean to contribute to the project, although that is very important. I am also calling for the Linux community to shame the mother organization Free Standards Group into either hiring a solid leader to get LSB moving, or for the existing leadership to get off its bum and produce a comprehensive specification and a self-hosting sample implementation in our lifetime. And by comprehensive I mean encompassing enough to build sophisticated graphical applications. What I most certainly do not mean is the pathetic minimal standard that seems to be slated for the LSB 1.0 specification. That way lies irrelevance.”

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