XORG(7)

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💖 XORG(7) — X.Org, XProjectTeam — X.Org Group information 💖

okay bestie, gather round 🫶 this is the tea on X.Org and the XProjectTeam — like, who are these people, where did they come from, and how do you slide into their DMs. It's xorg-docs 1.7.3, it's part of X Version 11, and it's living in the Miscellaneous Information Manual, obviously. ✨

🌸 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.

fr fr, that's the whole synopsis — the receipts are literally just who shipped what. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the lore goes like this: The Open Group's X Project Team was created as the successor to X Consortium, Inc. — that happened after the X Consortium stopped doing its thing and handed ownership of X11 over to The Open Group. Then The X.Org Group (and from here on out we're just calling it "X.Org", bestie, it's a nickname situation) got created as the successor to The X Project Team, right after The Open Group stopped operating The X Project Team. 😭

And what was X.Org even for? To foster development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System. That's the whole mission statement, and honestly? iconic. 👑 X.Org operates under the corporate umbrella of The Open Group.

Now the backstory-backstory: 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.

And the origin story ✨ — 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. 🦋

Then the paperwork era began, and honestly, not me getting emotional over assignment dates:

  • All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994.
  • On December 31, 1996 the X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors 💀 and all rights to the X Window System were assigned to The Open Group.

🎀 ADDRESS 🎀

Need to find them? Here's where they're at, no cap:

  • To reach The Open Group public World Wide Web server, use http://www.opengroup.org/.
  • To reach The X.Org public World Wide Web server, use http://www.x.org/.
  • To reach The X.Org public ftp machine, use anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.x.org/
psst — two of those are http:// and the ftp one is ftp://, and yes you should keep them exactly like that. 🙈

⭐ FULL MEMBERS ⭐

The full roster, bestie, every single one, in order, no skips:

  • 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

look at that lineup 🔥 seventeen whole members, we love to see it. 🌈

okay that's the whole page, you made it, so proud of you 🫶 and for the cute sign-off: this beauty comes to you from X Version 11, it's xorg-docs 1.7.3, and it goes by XORG(7) — slay, periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

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