Merger Marks Open-source Milestone

[thesidekickcat]

I wasn't sure this was of importance to anyone over here....but will post it just in case anyone is interested.

The article was in the Oregonian business section on Jan 23rd, 2007. The online article may not last for long as Oregonian had a 14 day free access time limit to articles ...or they may have changed free policy on archived articles...don't know.

Anyhow here is the link.

Merger marks open-source milestone

Pat

God bless everyone

[jcl]

Summary in case it's moved behind the subscription wall:

The merger of two major Linux development groups Monday marks a "maturing" of open-source software, the combined organization's new director says.

The days when businesses had to be talked into using Linux and other open-source products are over, according to Jim Zemlin, director of the newly formed Linux Foundation. (...)

The Linux Foundation was created Monday when Zemlin's old organization in San Francisco, the Free Standards Group, merged with the Beaverton-based Open Source Development Labs.

The new foundation will maintain offices in both California and Oregon and will continue to employ Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who manages Linux development from his home near Portland and had been working with Open Source Development Labs. (...)

By uniting his Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs, Zemlin said The Linux Foundation will be well-positioned to fight legal challenges to Linux and promote standardization to assure that different versions of Linux work well together.

(The (...) bits are supposed to be in square brackets but IPB munges the formatting if I use those.)