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Meyer, Jim wrote:
> [...]
> The question here: how is DefCore different, and how will we succeed where LSB failed?

I think LSB failed at incentivizing complying distributions. Basically
you could still call your distro "Linux" even if you didn't follow the
LSB. Defcore can (and does) use trademark programs to incentivize
OpenStack distributions, so we should avoid that.

Also the LSB was only one path to Linux interoperability. There are
various ways to be completely interoperable without complying to the
LSB. It is also no coincidence if LSB is beginning to die out at the
same moment yet another way to interoperate at application bundling
level appears (containers). I would argue that in the OpenStack case,
Defcore is an essential piece of our interoperability story. There are
others pieces (like killing differences in implementation when they
bubble up to the user), but a common set of base services is a key element.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)