[ Thanks to SMK for this link.
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“So why does Zimmerman/Ubuntu think that DEX can succeed where
the DCCA failed?“‘DCCA was an attempt to standardize a la LSB. DEX is more
pragmatic, about merging code from derivatives into Debian,’
Zimmerman responded to me.“LSB – Linux Standard Base is an interesting idea as well, which
still exists, though I’m not sure it has as much impact as it
should.”
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