.\" $Xorg: XProjectTeam.cpp,v 1.6 2001/01/29 17:44:41 coskrey Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1996 X Consortium .\" Copyright (c) 1996, 2000 The Open Group .\" .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), .\" to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation .\" the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, .\" and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the .\" Software furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: .\" .\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in .\" all copies or substantial portions of the Software. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, .\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL .\" THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, .\" WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE .\" SOFTWARE. .\" .\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not .\" be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other .\" dealing in this Software without prior written authorization from the .\" X Consortium. .\" .\" $XFree86: xc/doc/man/general/XProjectTeam.man,v 1.3 2001/12/19 21:37:27 dawes Exp $ .\" .TH X.Org __miscmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ .SH NAME X.Org, XProjectTeam \- X.Org Group information .SH SYNOPSIS Release 6.5 and 6.6 of X Version 11 was brought to you by The X.Org Group. Release 6.4 of X Version 11 was brought to you by The X Project Team. .SH DESCRIPTION The Open Group's X Project Team was created as the successor to the X Consortium, Inc., after the X Consortium was merged into The Open Group. The X.Org Group (hereinafter called "X.Org") was created as the successor to The X Project Team after the The Open Group ceased operating The X Project Team. The purpose of X.Org is to foster development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System. X.Org operates under the corporate umbrella of The Open Group. .PP The X Consortium was an independent, not-for-profit Delaware membership corporation. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Consortium. .PP The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consortium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to support further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT and the membership decided it was in their best interests to move the consortium 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. X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors on December 31, 1996. All rights to the X Window System have been assigned to The Open Group, for the benefit of the members of X.Org. .PP .SH "ADDRESS" To reach The Open Group public World Wide Web server, use http://www.opengroup.org/. .PP To reach The X.Org public World Wide Web server, use http://www.x.org/. .PP To reach The X.Org public ftp machine, use anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.x.org/ .SH "FULL MEMBERS" .nf Attachmate Barco Compaq Hewlett-Packard Hummingbird IBM ICS Metro Link MITRE Shiman Associates Silicon Graphics Incorporated Starnet Communications Sun Microsystems The XFree86 Project US Navy WRQ Xi Graphics .fi