Stories about: Open Group

Open standards and interoperability consortium The Open Group is calling on software developers and the IT industry at large to declare their independence from proprietary technology, in what the group is touting as a virtual call to arms against closed standards.

And now for something slightly different: some FreeBSD news. The FreeBSD Project was recently given permission to use the Posix standard for Unix-based application portability.

A group of leading Linux vendors are teaming together to form a community alliance, promising increased support for enterprise Linux users.

Several readers took me to task for referring to Linux, BSD, and OS X as Unix. Lighten up, folks -- I'm on your side. No one feels more protective of Unix's heritage than I. Unix has a rich legacy that deserves to be preserved and accurately conveyed to new generations of computer scientists. It rattles many of us to see that the operating systems that best exemplify Unix traditions today aren't Unix at all.

Looking to formalize its royalty-free standards position in May, the World Wide Web Consortium on Wednesday began the final review period for its patent policy.

An open-source software license permits users to read, access, change and reuse the source code of a software product.

In a boon for Linux standardization advocates, The Free Standards Group last week established a process for certifying Linux distributions to the Linux Standards Base.

At its developers' conference, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Monday released Version 2.6 of the Common Information Model (CIM), which includes models to administer Unix systems and Web-based Enterprise Management networks.

The first version of a new Linux Development Platform Specification was released Wednesday, clearing the way for the adoption of standards that will make participating Linux platforms work together seamlessly. The announcement was made by the nonprofit Free Standards Group at the Third Annual Linux Showcase & Conference in Atlanta.

Two Linux standards groups, the Linux Standards Base and the Linux Iternationalisation Initiative, today said they have joined together to form the Free Standards Group. This move aims to develop a single set of standards for the open-source operating system