1XCONSORTIUM(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual XCONSORTIUM(7)
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6 XConsortium - X Consortium information
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9 Releases 6.0 through 6.3 of X Version 11 were brought to you by the X
10 Consortium, Inc.
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13 The X Consortium was an independent, not-for-profit Delaware membership
14 corporation. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Con‐
15 sortium. The purpose of the X Consortium was to foster the develop‐
16 ment, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehen‐
17 sive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-trans‐
18 parent windowing and user interface standards.
19 The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts
21 Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consor‐
22 tium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary
23 to support further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT
24 and the membership decided it was in their best interests to move the
25 consortium out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organiza‐
26 tion. All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Con‐
27 sortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors
28 on December 31, 1996. All rights to the X Window System have been
29 assigned to the Open Software Foundation.
30 The X Consortium was financially self-supporting through membership
32 fees. There are no license fees associated with the use of X Window
33 System standards and code developed by the X Consortium. Membership in
34 the X Consortium was open to any organization willing to execute a mem‐
35 bership agreement.
36 The X Consortium was a highly participative body. Members were encour‐
38 aged to actively cooperate with the staff and other members in the
39 design and review of proposed specifications, and in the design, coding
40 and testing of sample implementations of those specifications.
41 The X Consortium accomplished most of its work using electronic mail
43 over the Internet, with individual mailing lists for working groups.
44 Internet electronic mail connectivity was viewed as a requirement for
45 useful participation in X Consortium activities. Meetings were held as
46 necessary, often in conjunction with industry conferences and trade
47 shows.
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50 President:
51 Bob Scheifler
52 Office Manager:
54 Janet O'Halloran
55 Director of Marketing:
57 Paul Lavallee
58 Director of Engineering:
60 Jim Fournier
61 Manager, X Window System:
63 Matt Landau, emeritus
64 Technical Director, X Window System:
66 Ralph Swick
67 Technical Staff, X Window System:
69 Donna Converse, emeritus
71 Stephen Gildea, emeritus
72 Kaleb Keithley
73 Arnaud Le Hors
74 Ralph Mor, emeritus
75 Ray Tice
76 Dave Wiggins, emeritus
77 Managers, CDE Development:
79 Giora Guth
80 Peter Bohnert, emeritus
81 Manager, CDE Quality Engineering:
83 David Brooks
84 CDE Architects:
86 Kevin Samborn
87 Daniel Dardailler, emeritus
88 Technical Staff, CDE Development:
90 Art Barstow
92 Pascale Dardailler
93 David Kaelbling
94 Mitch Greess
95 Robert Seacord
96 Technical Staff, CDE Quality Engineering:
98 Chris Burleson
100 Tom Cavin
101 Sami Mohammed
102 Mark Schuldenfrei
103 Manager, Systems Administration:
105 Kevin Ethier
106 Technical Staff, Systems Administration:
108 Mike Donati
109 Amy Rich, emeritus
110 Anne Salemme
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114 The X Consortium's activities and affairs were managed under the direc‐
115 tion and oversight of a Board of Directors, elected annually by the
116 Members. The Board was responsible for reviewing the achievements of
117 the Consortium, approving planned work, appointing a President and
118 other officers of the Consortium, and setting membership dues. The
119 last Directors were:
120 Robert W. Scheifler, President, X Consortium
122 Dr. Forest Baskett, Senior VP of R&D, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
123 Harold D. Blair, Apogee International Corp.
124 Roger S. Gourd, Gourd & Associates
125 Dr. Robin Hillyard, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Novasoft Systems
126 Don McGovern, General Operations Manager and Executive Dir., Hewlett Packard
127 Peter J. Shaw, Senior VP, NetManage
128 Michael Tobias, President, Tech-Source, Inc.
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132 To reach the X Consortium public Wide World Web server, use the URL:
133 http://www.x.org/
134 To reach the X Consortium public ftp machine, use anonymous ftp to:
136 ftp.x.org
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140 Adobe Systems Inc.
141 Cray Research, Inc.
142 Digital Equipment Corp.
143 Fujitsu Limited
144 Hewlett-Packard Company
145 Hitachi Ltd.
146 IBM Corporation
147 Megatek Corp.
148 Motorola, Inc.
149 NEC Corporation
150 Novell, Inc.
151 Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
152 OMRON Corporation
153 SCO, Inc.
154 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
155 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
156 Sony Corporation
157 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
158 Tektronix, Inc.
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162 Boundless Technologies
163 Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
164 Insignia Solutions, Ltd.
165 Mercury Interactive Corp.
166 NetManage, Inc.
167 Network Computing Devices
168 VisiCom Laboratories, Inc.
169 Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
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173 Hughes Aircraft Company
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177 ASTEC, Inc.
178 BARCO Chromatics, Inc.
179 CenterLine Software, Inc.
180 CliniComp, Intl.
181 Component Integration Laboratories, Inc.
182 Draper Laboratory.
183 Electronic Book Technologies, Inc.
184 Gallium Software, Inc.
185 Georgia Institute of Technology
186 Human Designed Systems, Inc.
187 INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
188 Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
189 Investment Management Services, Inc.
190 Jupiter Systems
191 KL Group Inc.
192 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
193 Metheus Corporation
194 Metro Link, Inc.
195 Object Management Group, Inc.
196 Open Software Foundation
197 Performance Awareness Corp.
198 Peritek Corp.
199 Petrotechnical Open Software Corp.
200 Point Technologies, Inc.
201 Shiman Associates, Inc.
202 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
203 Software Development Corp.
204 SOUM Corporation
205 Spectragraphics Corp.
206 Tech-Source, Inc.
207 TriTeal Corp.
208 White Pine Software, Inc.
209 World Wide Web Consortium.
210 The XFree86 Project, Inc.
211 X Inside, Inc.
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