Open Source Development Labs ( OSDL ) was a non-profit organization supported by a consortium to promote Linux for enterprise computing. Founded in 2000, OSDL positioned itself as an independent, non-profit lab for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to Linux. The headquarters was first incorporated in San Francisco but later relocated to Beaverton in Oregon with second facility in Yokohama , Japan.
4-603: On January 22, 2007, OSDL and the Free Standards Group merged to form the Linux Foundation , narrowing their respective focuses to that of promoting Linux. OSDL sponsored projects, including industry initiatives to enhance Linux for use in corporate data centres , in telecommunications networks, and on desktop computers . It also: Its employees included Linus Torvalds , the first OSDL fellow, and Bryce Harrington . In 2005, Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell
8-579: The Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) merged to form The Linux Foundation , narrowing their focus to promoting Linux in competition with Microsoft Windows . FSG was responsible for the following work groups, and transferred responsibility to The Linux Foundation: The Free Standards Group also had individual memberships; the board of directors was elected annually by all of
12-722: The investment backers directed OSDL, which also had a significant staff of its own. OSDL had established five Working Groups since 2002: Free Standards Group The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards , founded on May 8, 2000. All standards developed by the Free Standards Group (FSG) were released under open terms (the GNU Free Documentation License with no cover texts or invariant sections) and test suites, sample implementations and other software were released as free software . On January 22, 2007,
16-534: Was the second OSDL fellow for a year. It had data centers in Beaverton (Oregon, United States) and Yokohama (Japan). OSDL had investment backers that included: 7 funders of Computer Associates , Fujitsu , Hitachi, Ltd. , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Intel Corporation , Nippon Electric Corporation , as well as a large collection of independent software vendors , end-user companies and educational institutions. A steering committee composed of representatives from
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