Since 2000, the non-profit Open Source Development Lab has been a champion of Linux and Open Source in enterprise environments. Primarily an engineering-focused organization, the consortium is generally regarded as a boon to the Open Source community and a positive force in the mainstreaming of OSS.
The environment that the OSDL rose up in has greatly changed in the last several years. Today, Linux is without a doubt a trusted part of enterprise infrastructure, as validated by its most aggressive competitor. That's a tremendous shift from the mindset of 2000 and this week the OSDL felt that change with the loss of their CEO, Stuart Cohen, who leaves to work at a venture capital firm based in Portland and Seattle. In addition to this the OSDL laid off a third of its staff as they seek to redirect their efforts away from engineering and toward becoming a legal support organization.