[ Thanks to Joe
Black for this link. ]
“LJ Many Linux enthusiasts know you for
your work on the Linux kernel, but are perhaps less familiar with
your service to Linux International and the Free Standards Group.
Could you talk a little about your respective capacities with those
organizations?“Ted Well, I chair the Technical Board of Linux
International. Linux International is a vendor group that got
started back in the good old days of Linux startups– when Bob
Young would personally show up at tradeshows and help hand out CDs
containing the Slackware distribution. So from the beginning, Linux
International had as a strong emphasis the concept that its members
should band together to help ‘grow the pie.’“The technical board was there to help make sure the
organization stayed connected to its technical roots and later
picked up the responsibility to examine applications to the Linux
International Development Grant Fund, which is still operating
today…”