"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Former OSDL CEO Launches Startup
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> | "It is really about using the open-source methodology that has
> | made Linux what it is, where competitive vendors all came
> | together to work on the operating system. Customers want us
> | to bring a set of like-minded companies together to work on
> | customer-based applications," Cohen said.
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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2114409,00.asp
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>
> Related:
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> Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows
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> | Those same companies have decided that the time has come to consolidate
> | their collaborative support into a new group, the Linux Foundation,
> which
> | is being announced today. And the mission of the new organization is
> help
> | Linux, the leading example of the open-source model of software
> | development, to compete more effectively against Microsoft, the world?s
> | largest software company.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The work of two other groups -- the Open Source Development Labs and the
> | Free Standards Group -- will be folded into the Linux Foundation, and
> | those organizations will no longer exist. Mr. Zemlin had been the head
> | of the Free Standards Group.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/technology/22linux.html
I believe that this is known as the "Two Leaning Drunks" method of shoring
up shaky enterprises. We shall see if it becomes the first such merger to
succeed.
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