Linux Foundation announces project to "advance blockchain technology"

[oshwm]

Judging by the names on the list, I believe this is known as
'Gentrification' :)

On 18/12/15 07:13, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> With so many altcoin standards to choose from, just as well we shall
> shortly have another :)
> Zenaan
>
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> From: "LWN.net Daily Summary" <lwn at lwn.net>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 04:00:19 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: LWN.net Daily Summary for December 18, 2015
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/668359/
> Linux Foundation announces project to "advance blockchain technology"
> [Announcements] Posted Dec 17, 2015 17:35 UTC (Thu) by jake
>
> The Linux Foundation has announced[1] a new collaborative project[2] to
> "develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework"
> to allow developers to build "robust, industry-specific applications,
> platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions". Twenty
> companies have joined the effort: Accenture, ANZ Bank, Cisco, CLS,
> Credits, Deutsche Börse, Digital Asset Holdings, DTCC, Fujitsu Limited,
> IC3, IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan, London Stock Exchange Group, Mitsubishi
> UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), R3, State Street, SWIFT, VMware, and Wells
> Fargo. "Many of the founding members are already investing considerable
> research and development efforts exploring blockchain applications for
> industry. IBM intends to contribute tens of thousands of lines of its
> existing codebase and its corresponding intellectual property to this
> open source community. Digital Asset is contributing the Hyperledger
> mark, which will be used as the project name, as well as enterprise
> grade code and developer resources. R3 is contributing a new financial
> transaction architectural framework designed to specifically meet the
> requirements of its global bank members and other financial
> institutions. These technical contributions, among others from a variety
> of companies, will be reviewed in detail in the weeks ahead by the
> formation and Technical Steering Committees."
>
>  [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/12/linux-foundation-unites-industry-leaders-advance-blockchain
>  [2] https://blockchain.linuxfoundation.org/
>


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