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   Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:50:53 JST Alan Coopersmith

   • X.Org Foundation

   Belated 20th birthday cheers to @XOrgFoundation -- founded in January 2004:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Foundation

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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:50:50 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Andre

     @PCOWandre @unixben or one of the other predecessor orgs?

     1984-1988 MIT Project Athena
     1988-1993 The MIT X Consortium
     1993-1996 The X Consortium
     1997-1998 The Open Group X Project Team
     1998-2003 The X.Org Group

     The X Window System itself turns 40 in June 2024.

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     Andre (pcowandre@jauntygoat.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:50:51 JST Andre

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     • Ben

     @unixben @alanc Are you remembering the good ol' days of "XFree86"?

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     Ben (unixben@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:50:52 JST Ben

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     • X.Org Foundation

     @alanc @XOrgFoundation somehow it seems so much older

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:53:44 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Ben
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     @alanc @PCOWandre @unixben And X.Org Foundation since 2003 or there's another step?
     (XFree86 being AFAIK abandoned for around a decade)
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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:07:28 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Ben
     • Andre

     @lanodan @unixben @PCOWandre X.Org Foundation since January 2004. XFree86 ran in parallel to the industry consortiums before that (and for a short time later, but pretty much everyone moved from XFree86 to Xorg in 2004/2005 timefram and XFree86 was basically dead by 2008).

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