A community-curated list of awesome open companies, inspired by the many awesome-x lists out there.
(click here to jump straight to the list below.)
Contributions to this list are welcome! Just edit the README.md (this document) and send the changes as a pull request. Guidelines are available.
An open company is defined, for the purposes of this list, as a for-profit organization whose core practices are guided by principles of openness, transparency and interoperability. This philosophy can be summarized by the maxim:
Share as much as possible, charge as little as possible.
derived from the original formulation by Gittip (now Gratipay).
In practice, this often means: - releasing its products as free and open source software, open content, or open source hardware - using open standards and inter-operable formats - developing its products openly, using public communication channels - publishing as much financial and operational data as possible, without compromising customer privacy. - etc.
The following pages provide a more detailed overview of this concept: - Open business: Wikipedia article - Open business: from the P2P Foundation wiki
This work and all contributions to it are released into the public domain under the terms of the CC0 1.0.
