Open Source Development Labs
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| type = 501(c)(6) organization
| founded_date = 2000
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| location = San Francisco
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| area_served = Worldwide
| focus = Linux kernel, open source movement
| method = Promotion, protection, and standardization of Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms.
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| dissolved = 2007
| successor = Linux Foundation
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Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) was a non-profit organization supported by a consortium to promote Linux for enterprise computing.{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://osdl.org/about_osdl |date=* |title=About OSDL }} - January 20, 2007, version was last one archived prior to the merger. Founded in 2000, OSDL positioned itself as an independent, non-profit lab for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to Linux.{{cite web |url=http://osdl.org/osdlpress/2000_aug_30_santa_clara.html |title=Industry Leaders Including HP, Intel, IBM AND NEC Forming Open Source Development Lab For Linux |access-date=2017-12-01 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030607050006/http://osdl.org/osdlpress/2000_aug_30_santa_clara.html |archive-date=2003-06-07 }}" The headquarters was first incorporated in San Francisco but later relocated to Beaverton in Oregon with second facility in Yokohama, Japan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buzzfile.com/business/O-S-D-L-503-626-2455|title=Open Source Development Labs Inc|website=www.buzzfile.com|access-date=2016-10-26}}
On January 22, 2007, OSDL and the Free Standards Group merged to form the Linux Foundation, narrowing their respective focuses to that of promoting Linux.{{cite press release
|title=New Linux Foundation Launches – Merger of Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group
|publisher=The Linux Foundation
|date=January 22, 2007
|url=http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/01/21/new-linux-foundation-launches-%e2%80%93-merger-of-open-source-development-labs-and-free-standards-group/
|access-date=2008-03-26
|quote="Computing is entering a world dominated by two platforms: Linux and Windows."
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702180852/http://www.linux-foundation.org/wordpress/?p=286
|archive-date=2007-07-02
}}
Activities
OSDL sponsored projects, including industry initiatives to enhance Linux for use in corporate data centres, in telecommunications networks, and on desktop computers. It also:
- provided hardware resources to the free software community and the open source community
- tested and reported on open source software
- employed a number of Linux developers.
Its employees included Linus Torvalds, the first OSDL fellow, and Bryce Harrington. In 2005, Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell was the [https://web.archive.org/web/20050119015015/http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2005/2005_01_17_beaverton.html second OSDL fellow] for a year.
It had data centers in Beaverton (Oregon, United States) and Yokohama (Japan).
OSDL had investment backers that included: 7 funders of Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel Corporation, Nippon Electric Corporation, as well as a large collection of independent software vendors, end-user companies and educational institutions. A steering committee composed of representatives from the investment backers directed OSDL, which also had a significant staff of its own.
=Working groups=
OSDL had established five Working Groups since 2002:
- Mobile Linux Initiative
- Carrier Grade Linux
- Data Center Linux
- Desktop Linux
- User Advisory Council
See also
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
- Patent Commons, a project launched in November 2005 by the OSDL
References
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