Computerworld: “The idea was that the four partners could join and cut development costs, creating the operating system from the technical foundation of SUSE Enterprise Linux. But for users, [Stacey] Quandt said, a better tack would have been to start with code from the Linux Standard Base project, which is developing a set of standards to increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system.”
what a dumb article (computerworld’s)…
the linux standard base has no “code” of that sort, only specifications and tests.
SuSE (and therefor UnitedLinux) was and is LSB compliant.