[ale] Re: Certification

[Steven A. DuChene]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I know this may be crazy, but has anybody thought of any kind
> of certification program for linux?

Your too late, someone else already thought of this and it was long
enough ago that an article appeared in this months Linux Journal,
which I'm sure you already subscribe to. The article lays out what
they had to go through to get POSIX.1 certification and what they are
still working on to get XPG4 & conformance to Spec 1170 (otherwise
known as "Single Unix" or "Unix 95"). Once the second is done Linux
will be able to be officially be called Unix (TM) according to X/Open

One other tidbit of info, one of the companies that participated in
getting their distribution of Linux certified, Lasermoon, UK has been
purchased by Caldera along with The Linux Support Team from Germany.
I don't know if this sort of company gobbling is good or bad in the
long run for the future of Linux as we know it today.
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