Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows
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| Those same companies have decided that the time has come to consolidate
| their collaborative support into a new group, the Linux Foundation, which
| is being announced today. And the mission of the new organization is help
| Linux, the leading example of the open-source model of software
| development, to compete more effectively against Microsoft, the world?s
| largest software company.
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| The work of two other groups -- the Open Source Development Labs and the
| Free Standards Group -- will be folded into the Linux Foundation, and
| those organizations will no longer exist. Mr. Zemlin had been the head
| of the Free Standards Group.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/technology/22linux.html
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