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FOSS and multiple competing commercial interests

Posted Oct 14, 2008 16:44 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: FOSS and multiple competing commercial interests by kripkenstein
Parent article: Linux Summit will preview new advanced file system (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)

No, this isn't new. The X Window System started out as a bunch of hardware vendors banding together to develop a common, network-transparent graphics infrastructure.

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Posted Oct 14, 2008 17:03 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

Thanks for the information. I didn't know much about the history of X, so I read the Wikipedia entry now, following your post. Very interesting.