Submitted by ktate on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 18:23.
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https://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/strategies-application-portability we have also found that ISVs who conform to the LSB can focus their energies on creating new function instead of maintaining lots of ifdefs for specific Linux distributions. Being able to focus on their domain expertise instead of basic environment tweaking helps make their solutions more competitive. This makes Linux as a whole a more competitive environment.