OSS Projects + LSB

• Why do free/open source software projects care about the LSB

  • Users
    • Can't they just recompile?
      • May not have knowledge, time, resources
      • Many people want to just download
  • Distributions
    • Compatibility with packages from other distributions or 3rd parties
  • Application Developers
    • Minimise number of binary packages to build
    • Complying with standards helps with portability
      • Other UNIX or UNIX-like operating systems, FHS
    • Changes in base libraries
    • Reduces variety of bug reports