A Brief and Somewhat Biased History of The Consortium

• X Consortium: The Biggest Mistake I've Ever Made - Jim Gettys
• X Desktop: Com'on Punk, Eat My Lunch!
• CDE: Billions Won't Do What Miguel Can Do.
  
• X And Corporations Finally Rescued By XFree86 and GNOME.
• OSF, Taligent, Monterrey: Billions Won't Do What Linus Can Do.
• Tron: Godzilla Doesn't Destroy Silicon Valley After All.
  
• Corporations Consider Certifying Unix Systems to Linux Standard Base.
• See LSB Info at FreeStandards.org .
  
• How Many Can You Add To This List?
  

• Too Much Concentration on Differentiation vs. Partnership.
• Open Source Teams Put The Software First.
  
• Consortiums Provide A Poor Structure For Collaboration.
• Gated Community, Shared Source: All The Problems, and A New Name.