NAME
XOrgFoundation - X.Org Foundation information
SYNOPSIS
Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org
Foundation.
DESCRIPTION
The X.Org Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3)
charity corporation. It was formed in 2004 as the successor to the
X.Org Group at The Open Group. The purpose of the X.Org Foundation is
to foster the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window
System, a comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture
neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standards.
Membership in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. The
X.Org Foundation hosts a public git repository of the source code on
freedesktop.org.
The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded
consortium to provide the technical and administrative leadership
necessary to support further development of the X Window System. In
1992, MIT and the membership decided it was in their best interests to
move the consortium out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone
organization. All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT
to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. On December 31, 1996 the X
Consortium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System
were assigned to The Open Group (then known as the Open Software
Foundation).
ADDRESSES
The X.Org Foundation’s web site is http://www.x.org/
The X.Org Foundation’s public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/
Information about the X.Org Foundation git repository is on the X.Org
web site at http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git