Free Standards Group

The Free Standards Group is an industry non-profit consortium that primarily specifies and drives the adoption of the open source standards. All standards developed by the Free Standards Group are released under open terms (currently the GFDL with no cover texts or invariant sections) and test suites and other software are also released as open source terms.

Table of contents

1 Work Groups 2 Corporate Members 3 Not-for-profit Members 4 External Links

Work Groups

• The Linux Standard Base is a set of interface standards allowing for the ultimate portability of applications across free and open source platforms. Conformance with this specification is certified by the Open Group (under contract with the Free Standards Group).
• The Open Internationalization Initiative (OpenI18N) is a standard that creates a foundation for language globalization of compliant distributions and applications.
• The Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA)
• OpenPrinting is creating a scalable printing architecture and high-level requirements for a standardized printing system.

Corporate Members Hewlett-Packard IBM Intel SCO Group Conectiva MandrakeSoft Miracle Linux MontaVista Red Hat Sun Microsystems SuSE Linux Turbolinux VA Software AMD Dell Computer

Not-for-profit Members Japan Linux Association Linux International Linux Professional Institute (LPI) OSDL PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG) Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Software Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT) The Open Group USENIX Association

The Free Standards Group also has individual memberships; the board of directors is elected annually by all of the membership.

External Links

• http://www.freestandards.org/