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Awesome Open Company ★73813

A community-curated list of awesome open companies, inspired by the many awesome-x lists ★73813 out there.

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What is an open company?
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What is an open company?

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

Companies

(in alphabetical order, with optional announcement blog posts)

Company	Openness Pledge	Open Product	Open Standards	Statement	Open Finance
Aleph Objects	link	N/A
Arduino LLC	Arduino - Introduction	Arduino ★7574
Atlassian	Company values \| Atlassian	N/A
Balsamiq	Company \| Balsamiq	N/A
Bevry	Bevry	DocPad ★2943
Buffer	Buffer’s transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more	Misc		Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup	Revenue
CodeCombat	CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game	CodeCombat ★5955		Why you should open-source your startup
Couchbase	Open Source Projects	All Products
Dangerous Prototypes	About - DP	Projects
Dreamwidth	About Dreamwidth Studios	Dreamwidth
GitLab	About Us \| GitLab	GitLab
Gratipay	Welcome to Gratipay	All Products		The first open company	Finance ★13
Growstuff	(archive) Values - Growstuff Wiki	Growstuff ★248		Why Growstuff is open source
MapBox	Open Source - MapBox	Misc
Neocities	(archive) Neocities - stats	Neocities.org ★379		The first Neocities Open Company report
The Open Company	The Open Company	N/A
OpenCraft	OpenCraft \| Open edX Development & Hosting Services	N/A
Red Hat	Red Hat Jobs - Our culture	Mics
Sentry	About Sentry	Sentry ★14859		Driven by Open Source
Tessel	Open Source - Tessel	Tessel ★228
Transloadit	Open Source	Uppy	tus	Jobs & Culture

Resources

Books

Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams: Wikinomics

Articles

Paul Graham: What business can learn from open source
Massimo Menichinelli: Business models for open hardware
Roger Clarke: Open source software and open content as models for eBusiness
Chris Anderson: A business model for open source hardware
The Economist: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual
Chad Whitacre: The second open company
Timothy Cook: Why open companies? A new culture of business
Shereef Bishay: The open enterprise manifesto

Videos

BetterMeans introduction

Similar lists

The Open Company Initiative directory (OCI): A group of companies which adopted the OCI pledge
- (can’t be updated by the community, only by the companies themselves)
The Open 100: a competition held in 2009-2010 to find the top 100 open innovation companies
- (defunct — these links are from the Web Archive)
The VAR Guy’s The Open Source 50 (2009 list, 2010 list, 2012 update)
- (unmaintained)
Awesome Open ★29 ⏳1Y: A curated list of organizations, projects and initiatives that maintain open codebases and datasets

License

This work and all contributions to it are released into the public domain under the terms of the CC0 1.0. —