Fondation Linux
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consortium à but non lucratif pour le développement de Linux et des projets open source
OverviewAI-generated
The Linux Foundation is an active nonprofit organization and funder based in San Francisco, United States. It operates under the acronym LF and was established in 2000. The entity is also associated with an inception date of January 22, 2007. Its mission involves helping open technology projects build world-class open source software, communities, and companies.
The organization currently has a member count of 1436. It is described as facilitating decentralized innovation built with trust. The Linux Foundation is recognized as a nonprofit entity within the United States, focusing on the development of open source technologies and supporting the communities and companies that utilize them.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
Show 16 more facts
- 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)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Français
La Fondation Linux (en anglais Linux Foundation) est un consortium à but non lucratif fondé le 21 janvier 2007, il résulte de la fusion entre l'Open Source Development Labs et le (en). La Linux Foundation a pour mission de protéger et standardiser Linux en procurant les ressources et services centralisés nécessaires à concurrencer de manière efficace les autres systèmes d'exploitation. La Linux Foundation regroupe 70 membres parmi lesquels on trouve AMD, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Intel, IBM, LG Group, Microsoft, NEC, Novell, Oracle, Orange, Samsung, Twitter, Valve, Yahoo! et d'autres. Cette organisation est dirigée par , ancien directeur du FSG qui maintient en place les principaux développeurs, dont Linus Torvalds, sponsorisé par la fondation. Au côté des administrateurs proposés par ses membres, on remarquera la présence de Mark Shuttleworth fondateur du projet Ubuntu.
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