Free Software :: Free Software Contributing Companies & Institutions

  1. 4Front Technologies (XMMS development and sponsoring)
  2. AbsoluteValue Systems (linux-wlan - developement and support of a complete 802.11 wireless LAN system)
  3. Adaptec (Device drivers for: SCSI, I2O-RAID and FiberChannel hardware)
  4. Ada Core Technologies (Ada 95 development and support for GCC and Glade)
  5. Alacritech (SLIC - Linux iSCSI network card driver)
  6. Aleph One (GNU/Linux on the ARM CPU solutions and support)
  7. AMD (x86-64 - 64 bit GNU/Linux development kit for AMD CPU's)
  8. Amrita (Projects)
  9. AOL (in the past: Mozilla development and funding)
  10. AT&T (VNC, OmniORB, Graphviz)
  11. AudioScience (Linux/ALSA soundcard driver developement)
  12. Avaya (libsafe - a library against buffer-overflows)
  13. Axis (Bluetooth driver, JFFS)
  14. Balabit (Syslog-ng)
  15. Bashton (autovol - automatic computer volume adjustment)
  16. basysKom (OpenTAPI and KCall VOIP development and support)
  17. BBC (projects)
  18. Bitstream (Vera font set)
  19. BitWagon (projects)
  20. Bitwizard (Linux driver development)
  21. Borland (Free Kylix CLX Component Library)
  22. BSD Consulting (Projects)
  23. Bull (Projects)
  24. C@LL (Projects)
  25. CAMBIA (BIOS project - "free" platform for bio-technology projects.)
  26. Canonical (Ubuntu Linux - GNU/Linux distro support and development) (wp)
  27. Century Software (MicroWindows and ViewML development and support)
  28. Cipherica Labs (libike development)
  29. Clockwork (PayThyme - payroll system)
  30. credativ (Projects)
  31. CodeSourcery (GCC developement and support)
  32. CodeWeavers (Wine development)
  33. CollabNet (Their employees are involved in several free software projects)
  34. Copyleft (Financial donations to free software projects from online product sales)
  35. Corel (Wine contributions)
  36. Conectiva (GNU/Linux distro. Linux kernel developers employment)
  37. CubeWerx (CWXML - C based library for parsing and generating XML and BXML)
  38. Cyclades (GNU/Linux supported network hardware)
  39. Cycom (Projects)
  40. Danga (memcached - object caching system)
  41. DataCore (Projects)
  42. Dell (Projects)
  43. DerbyTech (bandwidthd - project sponsorship)
  44. dev/IT (Yada - C based database abstraction library)
  45. Digital Creations (Zope - web-application framework development and support)
  46. Dolphin (DISsp - Linux driver for cluster hardware)
  47. Downhill Battle (Blog Torrent - BitTorrent client and tracker)
  48. DynDNS.org (Perl & FreeBSD funding - DNS hosting service based on free software)
  49. Easy Software (CUPS - Common Un*x Printing System)
  50. eCosCentric (eCos and RedBoot development and support)
  51. Edgewall (Projects)
  52. Eklektix (LWN - Free Software news portal)
  53. Engage Interactive (Projects)
  54. Ericsson (Projects)
  55. Eudora (Qpopper - POP3 server)
  56. Feratech (Free software development support)
  57. Fluendo (Flumotion - audio/video streaming server development and support) (ml)
  58. Fotango (Perl development)
  59. FSM Labs (RTLinux)
  60. Funny Farm (YafRay, Crafter - raytracer and material creator)
  61. Gaisler Research (LEON2 - development and support for a free VHDL model of a 32-bit processor compliant with the SPARC V8 architecture)
  62. Gandi (Free Software friendly TLD registrar)
  63. GarageGames (TNL - Portable 3D simulation & game development framework)
  64. GForge Group (GForge development and support)
  65. GroundWork (Nagios based network monitoring support)
  66. Guardian Digital (Engarde Linux - Debian GNU/Linux variant. Software security auditing and patching)
  67. Hansen Partnership (NCR Voyager Linux kernel patches)
  68. Hitachi (Projects)
  69. HP Compaq (Projects)
  70. IBM (Projects)
  71. IBPhoenix (InterBase support and development)
  72. IC&S (DBmail support and development)
  73. ICP Electronics (Contributed a free Wafer-4823 single board computer for the ODDAS project)
  74. ICP Vortex (Contributed Linux kernel drivers for their RAID controller cards)
  75. Id Software (Game development: Quake I & II engine, Heretic, Doom)
  76. Imendio (GNOME based application development)
  77. Immunix (GNU/Linux distro, GNU libc hardening patches)
  78. Innominate (Projects)
  79. Intel (Itanium 64 bit GNU/Linux development kit) (Intel e1000 gigabit NIC driver) (Intel UPNP Universal Plug-and-Play)
  80. Intermesh (Group-Office - PHP/web based groupware suite)
  81. Internode (Nodemap - SNMP/Perl based network monitoring system)
  82. Inside Systems (ISMail - PHP based webmail system)
  83. InterSect Alliance (Snare, Razorback - network intrusion detection tools)
  84. Intevation (FreeGIS related project development and support)
  85. ITK (Projects - support and development of medical imaging software)
  86. Kernel Concepts (Linux kernel development support)
  87. Kitware (Principal developers of the GCC-XML project)
  88. Kompany (KDE based application development)
  89. Lateral Arts (Simkin - Embeddable, XML based C++/Java scripting library)
  90. Levanta (MapFS - Linux filesystem)
  91. Linpire (various projects - Commercial desktop oriented Debian GNU/Linux distribution)
  92. Linux New Media (GNU/Linux magazine publisher and free software event promotor)
  93. LISA (Projects)
  94. Loki (Game development software: SDL and OpenAL. Loki is out of business.)
  95. Lucas Digital (OpenEXR - high dynamic-range image file format)
  96. LQT (Chronos development and support)
  97. Luxoft Labs (Linux Wireless Sensor LAN Project development)
  98. Mai Logic (Open PPC solutions supporting Linux)
  99. Mainsoft (Mono project contributions)
  100. Mandriva (GNU/Linux distro support and development) (wp)
  101. MaxMind (GeoIP - free IP location database and API's)
  102. MIMOS (OpenOffice spell-checking database for the Bahasa Melayu language)
  103. Minoru (Healthcare software projects)
  104. Miro (Mambo - content management system)
  105. Mizi (Embedded GNU/Linux distro)
  106. Mondru (OpenGGSN support and development)
  107. MontaVista (Embedded GNU/Linux distro development and support. Linux kernel developers employment.)
  108. Motorola (Linux patches for the PPC port)
  109. Mozdev Group (Mozilla development and support)
  110. Mozilla Consulting (Mozilla development and support)
  111. MySQL AB (MySQL development and support)
  112. Namesys (ReiserFS file system development and support)
  113. Nelsonville Public Library (Invested money for the further development of Koha - a library software system)
  114. Nevrax (NeL - 3D multiplayer game engine)
  115. NLM (The 'U.S. National Library of Medicine' is a sponsor of the GCC-XML project)
  116. NoMachine (NX - X display protocol compression tool)
  117. No Starch Press (Free book publishing)
  118. Nokia (Affix - Bluetooth protocol stack)
  119. Novell (Projects)
  120. NuSphere (MySQL/PostgreSQL/PHP based product development and support)
  121. Octet String (developed a Java based JDBC-to-LDAP library)
  122. ON2 (VP3 - video codec donation to the Xiph non-profit foundation)
  123. OpenBrick (Develops small, fanless computers capable of running free software OS'es)
  124. Open InfiniBand Alliance (Linux InfiniBand development initiative)
  125. OpenedHand (Projects)
  126. Opersys (Linux Trace Toolkit, RelayFS)
  127. Oracle (Projects)
  128. O'Reilly (Free book publishing and free software event sponsoring)
  129. OSDL ("Open Source Development Labs". Non-profit consortium of 40+ companies helping to improve GNU/Linux) (projects)
  130. PADL (LDAP & NSS PAM module)
  131. Pengutronix (Several small projects)
  132. Platon (Projects)
  133. Plone Solutions (Plone support and development)
  134. Procom (Linux NetBEUI stack)
  135. Prosa (Embedded GNU/Linux distro and other free software projects)
  136. Pragmatic C (Cver - VHDL VHDL simulator)
  137. Progeny (Debian GNU/Linux development and support. PGI - graphical OS installer)
  138. Red Hat (GNU/Linux distro support and development, Linux kernel development, GFS file system, and more)
  139. Refractions (GIS solution development and support: MapServer & PostGIS)
  140. ReportLab (projects)
  141. Sangoma (WANPIPE - multi-protocol network software for Sangoma network cards)
  142. Dink Smallwood (RPG game kit release - see the new Dink project here)
  143. SAP (SAP DB)
  144. Scyld (Beowulf clustering & Linux ethernet device drivers development)
  145. SGI (Projects)
  146. Shiman (MAS - sound server for X)
  147. Simtec ("Booting ARM Linux" howto support)
  148. Skyrix (OpenGroupware development and support)
  149. Sleepycat (Berkeley DB)
  150. SnapGear / CyberGuard (Free software based embedded device development and uClinux development)
  151. Soekris Engineering (Free software based embedded device development and support)
  152. SoftPiXEL (Projects)
  153. Sony (Projects)
  154. SourceFire (Snort development and support - intrusion detection system)
  155. SourceGear (Initial developer of AbiWord - word processing tool)
  156. SpecSoft (GNU/Linux multimedia projects)
  157. SpringSoft (Flash web animation related projects)
  158. Systems in Motion (Coin - CAD/3D library)
  159. Static Free Software (Electric - VLSI layout system)
  160. STLport (STLport development and support - free C++ STL implementation)
  161. SugarCRM (Customer relationship management tool)
  162. Sun (OpenOffice office suite development and support)
  163. Sun Wah (Sun Wah Linux - Commercial Debian distribution for the Asian market)
  164. SuSE (GNU/Linux distro, support and kernel developer employment)
  165. Symas (OpenLDAP development and support - Portable security authentication & administration solutions)
  166. Synitech (OpenEMR - medical records system)
  167. Tensilica (Contributed a GCC patch to support the Xtensa CPU)
  168. Symbio (The Symbiont - thin-client managment system)
  169. Tera Soft Solutions (Yellow Dog - embedded PPC GNU/Linux distro)
  170. TimeSys (Embedded GNU/Linux distro and support)
  171. OSoft (ThoutReader - document management system)
  172. Toonka (KToon - KDE based 2D animation toolkit)
  173. Transgaming (Wine development)
  174. Transvirtual (Kaffe, PocketLinux - Free Java platform software)
  175. Trolltech (Qt - GUI toolkit development and KDE project support)
  176. Twisted Matrix Laboratories (Twisted - Python based web-application server)
  177. Uversa (ClearHealth - PHP based healthcare practice management system)
  179. VA Software (Web based services like SourceForge, FreshMeat, OSDN and Slashdot)
  180. Vexus (projects)
  181. VIACOM / VIVA PLUS Fernsehen (KONG42 - PHP based web application development framework)
  182. Vovida (Vocal - VOIP application development framework)
  183. WellX Telecom (Helped develop Partysip - a SIP proxy server)
  184. XDT (diskWriggler - Benchmark tool for testing filesystem storage throughput of video frames)
  185. Xandros (Commercial desktop oriented Debian GNU/Linux distribution)
  186. XenSource (Xen - portable, high-performance, x86 hardware emulator)
  187. Xelerance (development and support for Openswan, freeRADIUS, DNSSec and Asterisk)
  188. Xerox (Helped develop the GNU Savannah bug tracking system)
  189. Xoops (Content managment system development and support)
  190. XWare (OpenFTS - PosrtgresSQL based search engine)
  191. Zend (PHP compiler development and support)
  192. Zeroc (Ice - distributed communication framework)

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'Restrictive Open Source' Contributing Companies

  1. Apple (Projects of which many are non-free, because they are licensed under the APSL license.
  2. Porchdog (Howl - implementation of the Zeroconf networking standard. License: BSD-style and parts as APSL)
  3. RealNetworks (Helix DNA - client/server framework for media streaming)
  4. Sun (Projects of which many are non-free, and/or use Java, or are product specific code forks)
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