Editing The Open Group (section)

== History ==
{{See also|X Window System#History}}
By the early 1990s, the major UNIX system vendors had begun to realize that the standards rivalries (often called the "[[Unix wars]]") were causing all participants more harm than good, leaving the UNIX industry open to emerging competition from [[Microsoft]].  The [[Common Open Software Environment|COSE]] initiative in 1993 can be considered to be the first unification step, and the merger of the [[Open Software Foundation]] (OSF) and [[X/Open]] in 1996 as the ultimate step, in the end of those skirmishes. OSF had previously merged with [[Unix International]] in 1994, meaning that the new entity effectively represented all elements of the Unix community of the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050601125916588 |title=The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin|last=Salus|first=Peter H.|author-link=Peter H. Salus|publisher=Groklaw.net |access-date= 2013-05-10}}</ref>

In January 1997, the responsibility for the [[X Window System]] was transferred to The Open Group from the defunct [[X Consortium]]. In 1999, X.Org was formed to manage the X Window System, with management services provided by The Open Group. The X.Org members made a number of releases up to and including X11R6.8 while The Open Group provided management services. In 2004, X.Org and The Open Group worked together to establish the newly formed [[X.Org Foundation]] which then took control of the x.org domain name, and the stewardship of the X Window System.