Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a Consortium with founded nonlucrative goal on January 21st, 2007, it results from fusion between the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group.

Linux Foundation has the role of protecting and of standardizing Linux by getting the resources and centralized services necessary to efficiently compete with the other operating systems.

Linux Foundation gathers 70 members among whom one finds Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Nec, Novell, Oracle and others. This organization is directed by Jim Zemlin, former director of the FSG which maintains in place the principal developers, of which Linus Torvalds, sponsored by the foundation.

At the side of the administrators proposed by his members, one will notice the presence of Mark Shuttleworth founder of the project Ubuntu.

Quotations

James Zemlin: “ It has there nothing any more but two horses in the race, Microsoft and Linux. There is a thing that Microsoft made well, it is promotion, the standardization and the legal protection of Windows CE that Microsoft makes in this field is exactly what we must also do for Linux: to promote, protect and standardize. ”

References

See too

www.linux-foundation.org

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