HP’s open source vice president speaks about the newly formed Linux Foundation.

In January, two open-source advocacy groups — the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) — merged and formed the Linux Foundation. Last month, the new nonprofit organization named its board of directors, which includes representatives from Linux vendors and users, as well as Linux kernel developers and other open-source community members. Christine Martino, vice president of Hewlett-Packard’s Open Source and Linux Organization, is one of the board members. Martino spoke with Todd R. Weiss on Monday about the newly created foundation and what it plans to do to try continue to move the use of Linux forward.

What is the Linux Foundation going to focus on?

It’s really around three big things — standardizing and driving the Linux Standard Base (LSB) efforts, promotion and collaboration. I think it’s very good to have a neutral party, a nonvendor, promoting Linux. It also sets up a platform for collaboration…whether it’s [with] the technical community, developers and even end users.

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