++ Enables convergence towards Linux Standard Base (LSB) Reducing incompatibility between the variants of the GNU operating system that use Linux as the kernel is a useful job. The GNU Project would be happy to cooperate with other people on this, if they approach us in a cooperative spirit respecting what we've done. However, the Linux Standards Base decided to standardize the GNU system as if the GNU Project had nothing to do with it.
They have a right to do that if they wish. GNU is free software, and that means people have the right to make their own versions without even consulting us. But that's not a friendly approach, so we are not going to treat their choices as standards to be followed. If a good idea comes from the LSB, we won't reject it for that. It would be childish to reject a good idea just because of who proposed it. But we will not adopt it *because* of the LSB's decision.
