- Free Standards Group
The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit
consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption ofopen source standards.All standards developed by the Free Standards Group (FSG) were released under open terms (the
GNU Free Documentation License with no cover texts or invariant sections) and test suites,sample implementation s and other software were released as open source.On January 22, 2007, the Free Standards group and the
OSDL merged to formThe Linux Foundation , narrowing their respective focuses to that of promotingLinux in competition withMicrosoft Windows . [cite press release
title=New Linux Foundation Launches – Merger of Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group
publisher=The Linux Foundation
date=2007-01-22
url=http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/01/21/new-linux-foundation-launches-%E2%80%93-merger-of-open-source-development-labs-and-free-standards-group/
accessdate=2007-01-22
quote="Computing is entering a world dominated by two platforms: Linux and Windows."]Work Groups
FSG responsibility for the following work groups has now transferred to The Linux Foundation:
* The
Linux Standard Base is a set of interface standards allowing for the ultimate portability of applications across free and open source platforms. Conformance with this specification is certified byThe Open Group (under contract with the Free Standards Group).
* The Open Internationalization Initiative (OpenI18N) is a standard that creates a foundation for language globalization of compliant distributions and applications.
* TheLinux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA)
*OpenPrinting is creating a scalable printing architecture and high-level requirements for a standardized printing system.
* Accessibility is developing accessibility standards for free and open source platforms.
* Open Cluster is defining a set of clustering interface standards.
* TheDWARF Debugging Format Standard.Corporate members
*
AMD
*Dell Computer
*Hewlett-Packard
*Intel
*IBM
*Mandriva
*Miracle Linux
*Google
*MontaVista
* Oracle (Platinum Member )
*Red Hat
*SCO Group
*Sun Microsystems
*Novell (through its acquisition ofSUSE )
*Turbolinux
*VA Software Not-for-profit Members
*
Japan Linux Association
*Linux International
*Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
*OSDL
*PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG)
*Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
*Software Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT)
*The Open Group
*USENIX AssociationThe Free Standards Group also had individual memberships; the board of directors was elected annually by all of the membership.
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.