Linux Foundation
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non-profit technology consortium for development of Linux and open source
Key facts
- Predecessor
- Open Source Development Labs Free Standards Group
- Formation
- 2000 ; 26 years ago ( 2000 )
- Type
- 501(c)(6) organization
- Purpose
- Open-source software
- Headquarters
- 548 Market St, San Francisco , CA 94104, United States
- Members
- 1,000+ corporate members
- Website
- www .linuxfoundation .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2000
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Also known as
- LF
- Status
- Active
Official website
Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust
Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.
linuxfoundation.org →Link to the official site · 10,950 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- foundation
- Has part
- IBM
- Field of work
- open-source software
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Industry
- computer industry
- Official website
- www.linuxfoundation.org
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- inception
- 2007-01-22
- topic's main category
- Category:Linux Foundation
- Commons category
- Linux Foundation
- owner of
- kernel.org
- member count
- 1436
- social media followers
- 197000
- replaces
- Free Standards Group
- official blog URL
- www.linuxfoundation.org/blog
- phone number
- +1-415-723-9709
- terms of service URL
- linuxfoundation.org/terms
- privacy policy URL
- linuxfoundation.org/privacy-policy
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- language used
- English language
- press information URL
- www.linuxfoundation.org/press
- member of
- Open Source Initiative
- contact page URL
- www.linuxfoundation.org/about/contact
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linux Foundation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.