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1.5.1 Openness and Standards Support

   OpenDoc is owned by CI Labs, a non-profit industry association that 
   adopts, licenses and validates multi-platform distributed component 
   software.  CI Labs offers the following two kinds of memberships: 

   1.  Sponsors, such as IBM and Apple, which are companies with long term 
       interest in building component technologies.  They are on the board of 
       directors. 
   2.  Subscribers, such as develpoers and vendors, which have an interest in 
       building components upon the technologies provided by CI Labs.  They 
       have access to all the source code as OpenDoc, OSA, Bento and SOM and 
       can participate and vote in all taskforces of CI Labs.  The annual fee 
       is $350. 

   CI Labs is committed to adopting and including the standards defined by 
   OMG. While OMG, which is a member of CI Labs, is focusing on defining 
   interfaces for objects, CI Labs is focusing on the implementation side. 
   These technologies, developed by CI Labs and OMG, are designed to be 
   portable and will be supported on multiple platforms such as Macintosh, 
   OS/2, Windows, Unix, OS/400 and MVS. 

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