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Standards, Environments, and Macros             XORGFOUNDATION(5)



NAME
     XOrgFoundation - X.Org Foundation information

SYNOPSIS
     Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to  you  by
     the X.Org Foundation.

DESCRIPTION
     The  X.Org  Foundation  is  an  independent,  not-for-profit
     501(c)(3) charity corporation.  It was formed in 2004 as the
     successor to the X.Org Group at The Open Group. The  purpose
     of the X.Org Foundation is to foster the development, evolu-
     tion, and maintenance of the X Window System,  a  comprehen-
     sive  set  of  vendor-neutral,  system-architecture neutral,
     network-transparent windowing and user interface  standards.
     Membership  in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to any-
     one. The X.Org Foundation hosts a public git  repository  of
     the source code on freedesktop.org.

     The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Mas-
     sachusetts  Institute  of Technology.  In 1988, MIT formed a
     member-funded consortium to provide the technical and admin-
     istrative  leadership  necessary to support further develop-
     ment of the X Window System.  In 1992, MIT and  the  member-
     ship decided it was in their best interests to move the con-
     sortium out of MIT and create  an  independent,  stand-alone
     organization.   All  rights  to  the  X  Window  System were
     assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. On
     December  31,  1996  the X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors
     and all rights to the X Window System were assigned  to  The
     Open Group (then known as the Open Software Foundation).

ADDRESSES
     The X.Org Foundation's web site is http://www.x.org/

     The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/

     Information about the X.Org Foundation git repository is  on
     the X.Org web site at http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git
















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