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Open Group spawns X.Org

Posted by justin++ on from the not-the-drum-beating-guys dept.

Branden Robinson writes "The Open Group has created a new sub-organization, X.Org, to hold stewardship of the X Window System. X.Org will be a membership organization similar to the old I2O group, with open membership but voting restricted to paying members, and rules for expulsion of members. Check out their site and this NewsAlert story for more. "

3 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. source code contributors as voting members? by Andy+Tai · · Score: 4

    In light of the Open Source/Free Software movement, maybe there should be a way for people who contribute source code (rather than paying money) to be voting members. This way non-profit entities like the XFree86 group can get involved without worrying about coming up with the funds.

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  2. x.org "from the old days" by jlv · · Score: 3

    Sheesh. Anyone thinking TOG is getting special treatment WRT x.org is just dating themselves as "Internet newbies". x.org belonged to the X Consortium right from when it spun out from MIT. That's nearly 10 years by now. The 1997 date reported by whois is only the time the record was created as belonging to TOG.

    And, long before "The Slashdot Effect", the Internet trembled at whims of "The X Effect", which took place whenever a new release of X was made. It generally caused no end of routing havoc as links were saturated with X tar balls for days on end.

  3. X.org, and The Open Group... by jg · · Score: 5

    I've been only slightly involved with this.
    Comments below are my personal opinion, and
    are do not reflect either Compaq's or X.org's
    position.

    Several things of note:

    1) the traditional UNIX vendors have not been
    happy with The Open Group's stewardship of X;
    this is mostly extricating X from TOG's grasp.
    Shall we say that the copyright change TOG did last year upset them as much as anyone in the Linux community?

    2) Current members are listed at: http://www.x.org/current_members.htm.

    It includes: Compaq, HP, Hummingbird, IBM, SGI,
    Sun, Astek, Attachmate, Barko, Jupiter Systems,
    MetroLink, MITre, Peritek, Sequent, Shiman, Siemens, Starnet, WRQ, Xi Graphics.

    3) I think the X Consortium registered X.org
    before there were any restrictions on name length.

    If you are interested in the future of X and
    attending Linux Expo, you may want to attend the
    BOF Thursday evening...

    - Jim Gettys