Open Software Foundation

The Open Software Foundation, Inc. (OSF), was a not-for-profit industry consortium for creating an open standard for an implementation of the operating system Unix. It was formed in 1988[1] and merged with X/Open in 1996, to become The Open Group.[2]

Despite the similarities in name, OSF was unrelated to the Free Software Foundation (FSF, also based in Cambridge, Massachusetts), or the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

  1. ^ "New Foundation to Advance Software Standards, Develop and Provide Open Software Environment" (Press release). Open Software Foundation. May 17, 1988. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
  2. ^ "X/Open and OSF Join to Create The Open Group". tech-insider.org. Retrieved 2018-12-04.