Editing Open Software Foundation (section)

{{Short description|Nonprofit foundation}}
{{distinguish|Open Source Initiative|Free Software Foundation}}
The '''Open Software Foundation, Inc.''' ('''OSF'''), was a not-for-profit [[consortium|industry consortium]] for creating an [[open standard]] for an implementation of the [[operating system]] [[Unix]]. It was formed in 1988<ref>{{cite press release
 |title=New Foundation to Advance Software Standards, Develop and Provide Open Software Environment 
 |publisher=Open Software Foundation
 |date=May 17, 1988 
 |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/55d36e086c735309?
 |access-date=2007-07-31
}}</ref> and merged with [[X/Open]] in 1996, to become [[The Open Group]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tech-insider.org/unix/research/1996/0214.html |title=X/Open and OSF Join to Create The Open Group |website=tech-insider.org |access-date=2018-12-04}}</ref>

Despite the similarities in name, OSF was unrelated to the [[Free Software Foundation]] (FSF), or the [[Open Source Initiative]] (OSI).