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August 18, 2008
Canonical Joins Open Source's Linux Foundation
By Anil SharmaCanonical has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of the open source platform.
Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu (News - Alert), a popular version of the Linux operating system, and supports a wide range of other open source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart.
Ubuntu has become a popular choice for the server and desktop as well as for the rapidly emerging areas of netbooks and mobile Internet devices.
“The Linux Foundation occupies a critical, non-commercial function in the use and popularization of Linux around the world. We’ve always seen The Linux Foundation’s value and are pleased to now become an official member and support its activities. We look forward to working with them to continue the march of Linux in all areas of computing,” said Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu program manager and chief technical officer at Canonical.
Ubuntu community members have been active participants in a variety of workgroups at the Foundation, including the Linux Standard Base, Desktop Architects and Driver Backporting groups. With Canonical’s support, user interests for both commercial and community versions of Ubuntu will be represented.
“Canonical is an important new member for The Linux Foundation,” said Jim Zemlin (News - Alert), executive director of the Linux Foundation. “Matt and his team have created an exciting distribution that has taken the world by storm. They have rallied the cause of cross-industry, cross-community collaboration for years. We are extremely pleased to work even more closely with Canonical as we push Linux to the next stage of growth.”
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.
Founded in 2007, The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world.
The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms.
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