Free Standards Group
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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.[1]
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Abbreviation | FSG |
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Successor | Linux Foundation |
Founded | May 8, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-05-08)[1] |
Dissolved | January 22, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-01-22)[2] |
Merger of | Open Source Development Labs |
Type | Nonprofit organization |
Focus | open standards, free software movement[3] |
Location | |
Region | Worldwide |
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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, 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.[2]