Hoosier Penguin: Mission Creep

“I found the news of the merger between the Open Source
Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) into the
big mongo Linux Foundation quite… interesting. I know many of the
players involved in putting this who shebang together, so it is
very hard for me to dismiss the LF as
yet-another-big-dreams-and-no-follow-through organization (see: KDE
League, UnitedLinux, etc.) Still, one can only wonder, when the
spin put on most of the media coverage went something like this:
‘two large Linux organizations have joined forces to battle
Microsoft on the desktop.’

“At first, I thought this was just another way my media
colleagues were building more conflict to generate more interest.
Y’know, the ‘Man Bites Dog’ approach. But then I saw an interview
with Jim Zemlin in the Indian publication EFYTimes. There, he
stated ‘Linux is promoted by many smaller voices joining in a
chorus to promote the platform. That is something no company, not
even Microsoft, can compete with forever…'”

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