1XCONSORTIUM(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual XCONSORTIUM(7)
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6 XConsortium - X Consortium information
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9 Release 6.3 of X Version 11 was brought to you by X Consortium, Inc.
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12 The X Consortium was an independent, not-for-profit Delaware membership
13 corporation. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Con‐
14 sortium. The purpose of the X Consortium was to foster the develop‐
15 ment, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehen‐
16 sive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-trans‐
17 parent windowing and user interface standards.
18 The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts
20 Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consor‐
21 tium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary
22 to support further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT
23 and the membership decided it was in their best interests to move the
24 consortium out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organiza‐
25 tion. All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Con‐
26 sortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors
27 on December 31, 1996. All rights to the X Window System have been
28 assigned to the Open Software Foundation.
29 The X Consortium was financially self-supporting through membership
31 fees. There are no license fees associated with the use of X Window
32 System standards and code developed by the X Consortium. Membership in
33 the X Consortium was open to any organization willing to execute a mem‐
34 bership agreement.
35 The X Consortium was a highly participative body. Members were encour‐
37 aged to actively cooperate with the staff and other members in the
38 design and review of proposed specifications, and in the design, coding
39 and testing of sample implementations of those specifications.
40 The X Consortium accomplished most of its work using electronic mail
42 over the Internet, with individual mailing lists for working groups.
43 Internet electronic mail connectivity was viewed as a requirement for
44 useful participation in X Consortium activities. Meetings were held as
45 necessary, often in conjunction with industry conferences and trade
46 shows.
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49 President:
50 Bob Scheifler
51 Office Manager:
53 Janet O'Halloran
54 Director of Marketing:
56 Paul Lavallee
57 Director of Engineering:
59 Jim Fournier
60 Manager, X Window System:
62 Matt Landau, emeritus
63 Technical Director, X Window System:
65 Ralph Swick
66 Technical Staff, X Window System:
68 Donna Converse, emeritus
70 Stephen Gildea, emeritus
71 Kaleb Keithley
72 Arnaud Le Hors
73 Ralph Mor, emeritus
74 Ray Tice
75 Dave Wiggins, emeritus
76 Managers, CDE Development:
78 Giora Guth
79 Peter Bohnert, emeritus
80 Manager, CDE Quality Engineering:
82 David Brooks
83 CDE Architects:
85 Kevin Samborn
86 Daniel Dardailler, emeritus
87 Technical Staff, CDE Development:
89 Art Barstow
91 Pascale Dardailler
92 David Kaelbling
93 Mitch Greess
94 Robert Seacord
95 Technical Staff, CDE Quality Engineering:
97 Chris Burleson
99 Tom Cavin
100 Sami Mohammed
101 Mark Schuldenfrei
102 Manager, Systems Administration:
104 Kevin Ethier
105 Technical Staff, Systems Administration:
107 Mike Donati
108 Amy Rich, emeritus
109 Anne Salemme
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113 The X Consortium's activities and affairs were managed under the direc‐
114 tion and oversight of a Board of Directors, elected annually by the
115 Members. The Board was responsible for reviewing the achievements of
116 the Consortium, approving planned work, appointing a President and
117 other officers of the Consortium, and setting membership dues. The
118 last Directors were:
119 Robert W. Scheifler, President, X Consortium
121 Dr. Forest Baskett, Senior VP of R&D, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
122 Harold D. Blair, Apogee International Corp.
123 Roger S. Gourd, Gourd & Associates
124 Dr. Robin Hillyard, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Novasoft Systems
125 Don McGovern, General Operations Manager and Executive Dir., Hewlett Packard
126 Peter J. Shaw, Senior VP, NetManage
127 Michael Tobias, President, Tech-Source, Inc.
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131 To reach the X Consortium public Wide World Web server, use the URL:
132 http://www.x.org/
133 To reach the X Consortium public ftp machine, use anonymous ftp to:
135 ftp.x.org
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139 Adobe Systems Inc.
140 Cray Research, Inc.
141 Digital Equipment Corp.
142 Fujitsu Limited
143 Hewlett-Packard Company
144 Hitachi Ltd.
145 IBM Corporation
146 Megatek Corp.
147 Motorola, Inc.
148 NEC Corporation
149 Novell, Inc.
150 Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
151 OMRON Corporation
152 SCO, Inc.
153 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
154 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
155 Sony Corporation
156 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
157 Tektronix, Inc.
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161 Boundless Technologies
162 Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
163 Insignia Solutions, Ltd.
164 Mercury Interactive Corp.
165 NetManage, Inc.
166 Network Computing Devices
167 VisiCom Laboratories, Inc.
168 Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
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172 Hughes Aircraft Company
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176 ASTEC, Inc.
177 BARCO Chromatics, Inc.
178 CenterLine Software, Inc.
179 CliniComp, Intl.
180 Component Integration Laboratories, Inc.
181 Draper Laboratory.
182 Electronic Book Technologies, Inc.
183 Gallium Software, Inc.
184 Georgia Institiute of Technology
185 Human Designed Systems, Inc.
186 INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
187 Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
188 Investment Management Services, Inc.
189 Jupiter Systems
190 KL Group Inc.
191 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
192 Metheus Corporation
193 Metro Link, Inc.
194 Object Management Group, Inc.
195 Open Software Foundation
196 Performance Awareness Corp.
197 Peritek Corp.
198 Petrotechnical Open Software Corp.
199 Point Technologies, Inc.
200 Shiman Associates, Inc.
201 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
202 Software Development Corp.
203 SOUM Corporation
204 Spectragraphics Corp.
205 Tech-Source, Inc.
206 TriTeal Corp.
207 White Pine Software, Inc.
208 World Wide Web Consortium.
209 The XFree86 Project, Inc.
210 X Inside, Inc.
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