1XORG(7)                Miscellaneous Information Manual                XORG(7)
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NAME

6       X.Org, XProjectTeam - X.Org Group information
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SYNOPSIS

9       Release  6.5  and  6.6  of X Version 11 was brought to you by The X.Org
10       Group.  Release 6.4 of X Version 11 was brought to you by The X Project
11       Team.
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DESCRIPTION

14       The  Open  Group's X Project Team was created as the successor to the X
15       Consortium, Inc., after the X Consortium ceased operations  and  trans‐
16       ferred ownership of X11 to The Open Group. The X.Org Group (hereinafter
17       called "X.Org") was created as the successor  to  The  X  Project  Team
18       after  the The Open Group ceased operating The X Project Team. The pur‐
19       pose of X.Org was to foster development, evolution, and maintenance  of
20       the  X  Window  System.  X.Org operates under the corporate umbrella of
21       The Open Group.
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23       The X Consortium was an independent, not-for-profit Delaware membership
24       corporation.   It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Con‐
25       sortium.
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27       The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at  the  Massachusetts
28       Institute  of  Technology.  In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consor‐
29       tium to provide the technical and administrative  leadership  necessary
30       to  support  further  development of the X Window System.  In 1992, MIT
31       and the membership decided it was in their best interests to  move  the
32       consortium  out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organiza‐
33       tion.  All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Con‐
34       sortium,  Inc.  on January 1, 1994.  On December 31, 1996 the X Consor‐
35       tium, Inc.  closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System were
36       assigned to The Open Group.
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ADDRESS

39       To   reach   The   Open   Group  public  World  Wide  Web  server,  use
40       http://www.opengroup.org/.
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42       To reach The X.Org public World Wide Web server, use http://www.x.org/.
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44       To  reach  The  X.Org  public  ftp  machine,  use  anonymous   ftp   at
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FULL MEMBERS

49       Attachmate
50       Barco
51       Compaq
52       Hewlett-Packard
53       Hummingbird
54       IBM
55       ICS
56       Metro Link
57       MITRE
58       Shiman Associates
59       Silicon Graphics Incorporated
60       Starnet Communications
61       Sun Microsystems
62       The XFree86 Project
63       US Navy
64       WRQ
65       Xi Graphics
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