Well at least the concept of standards is continuing to move forward. It may be taking too long here in the West, but at least we are seeing progress in some parts of the world.

The Free Standards Group (FSG), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open source software standards, today announced the opening of a Linux certification lab in the People’s Republic of China. The lab will certify Linux distributions and applications to the Linux Standard Base (LSB) and will be maintained by the FSG and the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI). It is the first certification authority for Linux standards outside of the United States and will ensure that Linux distributions in China adhere to the LSB, which is now the core reference and a necessary component for the Chinese national standard for Linux. [Read the rest]