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Organizations (cont'd)
OSDL: Open Source Development Labs. Founded by corporations (IBM, Intel, others). Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton belong to it. Promotes standardization and adoption of Linux in the enterprise market. (2000)
FSG: Free Standards Group. Includes Linux Standard Base project (promotes standardization of Linux distributions) and Open I18N project (internationalization). Individuals and corporations members w/ fees.
OSI: Open Source Initiative
ObjectWeb: Consortium, focuses on middleware (1999)
OpenOffice.org: Started by Sun. Led by Community Council (1999)
Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla.org: Non-profit corporation with Board of directors. AOL/Nestcape. (2003)