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XORGFOUNDATION(7)      Miscellaneous Information Manual	     XORGFOUNDATION(7)

NAME
       XOrgFoundation -	X.Org Foundation information

SYNOPSIS
       Release	6.7  and  later	of X Version 11	is brought to you by the X.Org
       Foundation.

DESCRIPTION
       The X.Org Foundation is a member	project	of Software in the Public  In-
       terest (SPI), an	independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corpora-
       tion.  It was formed in 2004 as the successor to	the X.Org Group	at The
       Open Group. The purpose of the X.Org Foundation is to foster the	devel-
       opment, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehen-
       sive set	of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral,	network-trans-
       parent  windowing and user interface standards. Membership in the X.Org
       Foundation is free and open to anyone. The X.Org	Foundation hosts  pub-
       lic git repositories of the source code on freedesktop.org.

       The  X  Window System was created in the	mid-1980s at the Massachusetts
       Institute of Technology.	 In 1988, MIT formed a	member-funded  consor-
       tium  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  organiza-
       tion.  All rights to the	X Window System	were assigned by MIT to	X Con-
       sortium,	 Inc.  on  January 1, 1994. On December	31, 1996 the X Consor-
       tium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System  were
       assigned	 to  The  Open	Group (then known as the Open Software Founda-
       tion).

ADDRESSES
       The X.Org Foundation's web site is https://www.x.org/

ADDRESSES
       SPI's web site is https://spi-inc.org/

       The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/

       The X.Org Foundation's public source repositories are  at  https://git-
       lab.freedesktop.org/xorg

X Version 11			xorg-docs 1.7.2		     XORGFOUNDATION(7)

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