SuSe CTO Takes Issue with ‘Backporting’

Anonymous Reader writes “TORONTO — SUSE’s chief technology officer said he believes the practice of “backporting” features from the 2.6 Linux kernel into older versions is a “bad thing” because it interferes with standardization of the open source operating system.

During a keynote address at the Real World Linux Conference here Thursday, Juergen Geck also chided industry players to avoid practices that could further fragment open source standardization efforts.”