Stories about: Free Standards Group

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Consortium launches Linux patent pool 10 December, 2008 08:28

Open Invention Network, which buys patents related to the Linux operating system and licenses them royalty-free, Tuesday launched a program aimed at encouraging open-source developers to document information about their work so that it can be easily read and used by patent offices and lawyers.
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Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft 13 March, 2008 09:43

Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for the Apache Web server. Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference and Linux World.
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Open-source guru Ted Ts'o named to Linux Foundation posts 05 December, 2007 13:40

Longtime Linux and open-source programmer and activist Theodore "Ted" Ts'o, who is responsible for maintaining the Linux kernel file system for the open-source project, has been named the new chief platform strategist for The Linux Foundation (LF).
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Ask a penguin to see which way Linux wind blows 29 August, 2007 11:09

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects.
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Ask a penguin to see which way Linux wind blows 15 August, 2007 07:53

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects.
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LINUXWORLD - Linux group adds open-source lawyers to team 09 August, 2007 12:20

The Linux Foundation Wednesday revealed that two lawyers well-known in the open-source community will make up the legal team for the group, which is aimed at protecting the interests of Linux in the community.
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Startup to nurture open source apps 17 April, 2007 13:20

The former head of Open Source Development Labs on Monday launched a new company that will take the principles of open source development and use them to build common applications that can be shared among industry competitors.
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Linux Foundation pushes OS to common ground 16 April, 2007 12:27

In January, two open-source advocacy groups -- the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) -- merged and formed the Linux Foundation. Last month, the new nonprofit organization named its board of directors, which includes representatives from Linux vendors and users, as well as Linux kernel developers and other open-source community members. Christine Martino, vice president of Hewlett-Packard's Open Source and Linux Organization, is one of the board members. Martino spoke with Todd R. Weiss on Monday about the newly created foundation and what it plans to do to try continue to move the use of Linux forward.
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Linux Foundation updates Linux Standard Base 10 April, 2007 08:41

The Linux Foundation updated its Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification Monday to include new automated testing toolkits to make it easier to develop applications for different distributions of the open-source operating system.
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Linux Foundation announces new board 28 March, 2007 11:09

The recently formed Linux Foundation, a merger of two Linux evangelizing industry consortiums, named its 15-person board of directors Tuesday. Along with executives from IT firms, the board also features the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, a leading end-user of open-source software, and a lawyer whose work is focused on consortiums and standards development.
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OSDL, Free Standards Group to merge 22 January, 2007 11:05

The two main evangelizers of the Linux operating system, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) are merging to form the Linux Foundation.