Major Organizations

• FSF: Free Software Foundation. GNU software. GPL license. Toolchain, runtime, and many others projects. Started by individuals. Richard Stallman. (1985)

• Kernel.org: archives of the Linux kernel.

• ASF: Apache Software Foundation. Several projects focused around Web Services. (1999)

• Eclipse Foundation: started by corporations (IBM was first). Membership by payment (% of revenue). EPL license. Eclipse GUI development platform. (2001)

• Gnome Foundation: Linux desktop. (1998)

• X.org Foundation: (2004) From XFree86 split.