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The creation of the Foundation marked a radical change in the governance of X. Whereas the stewards of X since 1988 (including the previous X.Org) had been vendor organizations, the Foundation is led by software developers and using community development on the bazaar model, which relies on outside involvement. Membership is also open to individuals, with corporate membership being in the form of sponsorship.
The Foundation is a Delaware LLC, with non-profit status as a scientific charity. The initial Interim Board of Directors is Stuart Anderson ( Free Standards Group), Egbert Eich ( SUSE/ Novell), Jim Gettys ( HP), Georg Greve ( Free Software Foundation Europe), Stuart Kreitman ( Sun Microsystems), Kevin Martin ( Red HatAlternate meanings: See Red hat Red Hat, Inc. is one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open source software. Founded in 1993, the company now has more than 700 employees and 22 locations worldwide, including its corporate headquart), Jim McQuillan ( Linux Terminal Server Project), Leon Shiman (Shiman Associates) and Jeremy White ( CodeWeaversCodeWeavers is a company that sells a proprietary fork of WINE called CrossOver Office, for running Windows applications on Linux. The company was founded in 1996 as a consultancy, eventually moving entirely over to WINE support. CodeWeavers is a major co).
The XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11The XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11 (the XOrg Server is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. The current release is X11R6. 1, released 17 September 2004. It is open source and free software. The project is is the reference implementationIn computing, a reference implementation (or, infrequently, sample implementation is a software example of a standard for use in helping others implement their own versions of the standard. A standard is much easier to understand with a working example to of X. The current version is X11R6.8.1. It is hosted at freedesktop.orgfreedesktop. org fd. o is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It was founded by Havoc Pennington in March 2000. The organis.