Free Software Contributing Companies & Institutions
- 4Front Technologies (XMMS development and sponsoring)
- AbsoluteValue Systems (linux-wlan
- developement and support of a complete 802.11 wireless LAN system)
- Adaptec (Device drivers for: SCSI,
I2O-RAID and FiberChannel hardware)
- Ada Core Technologies (Ada 95 development and support for GCC and Glade)
- Alacritech (SLIC - Linux iSCSI network card driver)
- Aleph One (GNU/Linux on the ARM CPU solutions and support)
- AMD (x86-64 - 64 bit GNU/Linux development kit for AMD CPU's)
- Amrita (Projects)
- AOL
(in the past: Mozilla development and funding)
- AT&T
(VNC, OmniORB, Graphviz)
- AudioScience
(Linux/ALSA soundcard driver developement)
- Avaya (libsafe -
a library against buffer-overflows)
- Axis (Bluetooth driver, JFFS)
- Balabit (Syslog-ng)
- Bashton
(autovol - automatic computer volume adjustment)
- Bitstream (Vera font set)
- Bitwizard (Linux driver development)
- Borland (Free Kylix CLX Component Library)
- BSD Consulting (Projects)
- Bull (Projects)
- C@LL (Projects)
- Canonical
(Ubuntu Linux - GNU/Linux distro support and development)
(wp)
- Century Software
(MicroWindows and ViewML development and support)
- Cipherica Labs (libike development)
- Clockwork (PayThyme - payroll system)
- CodeSourcery
(GCC developement and support)
- CodeWeavers (Wine development)
- CollabNet
(Their employees are involved in several free software projects)
- Copyleft (Financial donations
to free software projects from online product sales)
- Corel (Wine contributions)
- Conectiva (GNU/Linux distro.
Linux kernel developers employment)
- Convergence
(Hosts DirectFB.org and LinuxTV.org. Created
the Linux driver for the Margi/Billionton MPEG decoder PC-Card.)
- CubeWerx
(CWXML - C based library for parsing and generating XML and BXML)
- Cyclades
(GNU/Linux supported network hardware)
- Cycom
(Projects)
- DataCore
(Projects)
- Dell
(Projects)
- DerbyTech
(bandwidthd - project sponsorship)
- Digital Creations
(Zope - web-application framework development and support)
- Dolphin
(DISsp - Linux driver for cluster hardware)
- Downhill Battle
(Blog Torrent - BitTorrent client and tracker)
- DynDNS.org
(Perl & FreeBSD funding - DNS hosting service based on free software)
- Easy Software (CUPS - Common Un*x Printing System)
- eCosCentric
(eCos
and RedBoot development and support)
- Edgewall (Projects)
- Eklektix (LWN - Free Software news portal)
- Engage Interactive (Projects)
- Equivalence (OpenH323 development and support)
- Ericsson (Projects)
- Eudora (Qpopper - POP3 server)
- Feratech (Free software development support)
- Fluendo
(GStreamer based streaming media services and Ogg Theora video codec funding)
(ml)
- Fotango (Perl development)
- FSM Labs (RTLinux)
- Funny Farm (YafRay, Crafter
- raytracer and material creator)
- Future Lab (GNU software
development and support)
- Gaisler Research
(LEON2 - development and support for a free VHDL model of a
32-bit processor compliant with the SPARC V8 architecture)
- Gandi (Free Software friendly TLD registrar)
- GarageGames
(TNL - Portable 3D simulation & game development framework)
- GroundWork
(Nagios based network monitoring support)
- Guardian Digital (Engarde Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux variant. Software security auditing and patching)
- Hansen Partnership (NCR Voyager Linux kernel patches)
- Hitachi (Projects)
- HP Compaq (Projects)
- IBM (Projects)
- IBPhoenix (InterBase support and development)
- IC&S
(DBmail support and development)
- ICP Electronics (Contributed a free
Wafer-4823 single board computer for the ODDAS project)
- ICP Vortex (Contributed
Linux kernel drivers for their RAID controller cards)
- Id Software
(Game development: Quake I & II engine, Heretic, Doom)
- Imendio
(GNOME based application development)
- Immunix
(GNU/Linux distro, GNU libc hardening patches)
- Innominate (Projects)
- Intel
(Itanium 64 bit GNU/Linux development kit)
(Intel e1000 gigabit NIC driver)
(Intel UPNP Universal Plug-and-Play)
- Intermesh
(Group-Office - PHP/web based groupware suite)
- Internode
(Nodemap - SNMP/Perl based network monitoring system)
- Inside Systems
(ISMail - PHP based webmail system)
- InterSect Alliance
(Snare, Razorback - network intrusion detection tools)
- Intevation
(FreeGIS related project development
and support)
- ITK (Projects -
support and development of medical imaging software)
- Kernel Concepts
(Linux kernel development support)
- Kitware
(Principal developers of the GCC-XML project)
- Kompany
(KDE based application development)
- Lateral Arts
(Simkin - Embeddable, XML based C++/Java scripting library)
- Linpire
(various projects - Commercial desktop oriented Debian GNU/Linux
distribution)
- LinuxCare
(GNU/Linux development and support)
- Linux New Media
(GNU/Linux magazine publisher and free software event promotor)
- LISA (Projects)
- Loki (Game
development software: SDL and OpenAL. Loki is out of business.)
- Lucas Digital (OpenEXR - high
dynamic-range image file format)
- LQT
(Chronos development and support)
- Luxoft Labs
(Linux Wireless Sensor LAN Project development)
- Mai Logic (Open PPC solutions supporting Linux)
- Mainsoft (Mono project contributions)
- MandrakeSoft
(Mandrake GNU/Linux distro support and development)
(wp)
- MaxMind
(GeoIP - free IP location database and API's)
- Metro Link
(XFree86 development)
- Mondru
(OpenGGSN support and development)
- Minoru
(Healthcare software projects)
- Miro
(Mambo - content management system)
- Mizi
(Embedded GNU/Linux distro)
- MontaVista
(Embedded GNU/Linux distro development and support.
Linux kernel developers employment.)
- Motorola
(Linux patches for the PPC port)
- Mozdev Group
(Mozilla development and support)
- Mozilla Consulting
(Mozilla development and support)
- MySQL AB (MySQL development and support)
- Nemein
(PHP/Midgard development and support)
- Namesys
(ReiserFS file system development and support)
- Nelsonville Public Library (Invested money
for the further development of Koha - a library software system)
- Nevrax (NeL - 3D multiplayer game engine)
- NLM (The 'U.S.
National Library of Medicine' is a sponsor of the GCC-XML project)
- NoMachine
(NX - X display protocol compression tool)
- No Starch Press
(Free book publishing)
- Nokia
(Affix - Bluetooth protocol stack)
- Novell (Projects)
- NuSphere
(MySQL/PostgreSQL/PHP based product development and support)
- Octet String
(developed a Java based JDBC-to-LDAP library)
- ON2
(VP3 - video codec donation to the Xiph non-profit foundation)
- OpenBrick
(Develops small, fanless computers capable of running free software OS'es)
- Open InfiniBand Alliance
(Linux InfiniBand development initiative)
- OpenedHand (Projects)
- Opersys
(Linux Trace Toolkit, RelayFS)
- Oracle (Projects)
- O'Reilly
(Free book publishing and free software event sponsoring)
- OSDL
("Open Source Development Labs". Non-profit
consortium of 40+ companies helping to improve GNU/Linux)
(projects)
- PADL (LDAP & NSS PAM module)
- Pengutronix (Several small
projects)
- Platon (Projects)
- Procom (Linux NetBEUI stack)
- Prosa (Embedded GNU/Linux distro and other free software projects)
- Pragmatic C
(Cver - VHDL VHDL simulator)
- Progeny (Debian GNU/Linux
development and support. PGI - graphical OS installer)
- Red Hat
(GNU/Linux distro support and development, Linux kernel development,
GFS file system, and more)
- Refractions
(GIS solution development and support: MapServer & PostGIS)
- ReportLab (projects)
- Sangoma (WANPIPE -
multi-protocol network software for Sangoma network cards)
- Dink Smallwood (RPG game kit
release - see the new Dink project here)
- SAP (SAP DB)
- Scyld
(Beowulf clustering & Linux ethernet device drivers development)
- SGI (Projects)
- Shiman (MAS - sound server for X)
- Simtec
("Booting ARM Linux" howto support)
- Skyrix
(OpenGroupware development and support)
- Sleepycat
(Berkeley DB)
- SnapGear / CyberGuard
(Free software based embedded device development and
uClinux development)
- Soekris Engineering
(Free software based embedded device development and support)
- SoftPiXEL (Projects)
- Sony (Projects)
- SourceFire
(Snort development and support - intrusion detection system)
- SourceGear
(Initial developer of AbiWord
- word processing tool)
- SpecSoft
(GNU/Linux multimedia projects)
- SpringSoft
(Flash web animation related projects)
- Systems in Motion (Coin - CAD/3D library)
- Static Free Software
(Electric - VLSI layout system)
- STLport (STLport development
and support - free C++ STL implementation)
- SugarCRM
(Customer relationship management tool)
- Sun
(OpenOffice development and support)
- SuSE
(GNU/Linux distro, support and kernel developer employment)
- Symas (OpenLDAP development and support
- Portable security authentication & administration solutions)
- Synitech (OpenEMR - medical records system)
- Tensilica
(Contributed a GCC patch to support the Xtensa CPU)
- Symbio
(The Symbiont - thin-client managment system)
- Tera Soft Solutions
(Yellow Dog - embedded PPC GNU/Linux distro)
- TimeSys (Embedded GNU/Linux distro and support)
- OSoft
(ThoutReader - document management system)
- Transgaming (Wine development)
- Transvirtual (Kaffe, PocketLinux
- Free Java platform software)
- Trolltech
(Qt - GUI toolkit development and KDE project support)
- VA Software
(Web based services like SourceForge, FreshMeat, OSDN and Slashdot)
- VIACOM / VIVA PLUS Fernsehen
(KONG42 - PHP based web application development framework)
- Vovida
(Vocal - VOIP application development framework)
- WellX Telecom
(Helped develop Partysip - a SIP proxy server)
- XDT
(diskWriggler - Benchmark tool for testing filesystem storage
throughput of video frames)
- Xandros
(Commercial desktop oriented Debian GNU/Linux distribution)
- XenSource
(Xen - portable, high-performance,
x86 hardware emulator)
- Xelerance
(development and support for Openswan, freeRADIUS, DNSSec and Asterisk)
- Xerox (Helped develop the
GNU Savannah bug tracking system)
- Xoops
(Content managment system development and support)
- XWare
(OpenFTS - PosrtgresSQL based search engine)
- Zend (PHP compiler development and support)
- Zeroc (Ice - distributed communication
framework)
'Restrictive Open Source' Contributing Companies
- Apple
(Projects of which many are non-free, because they are licensed under
the APSL license.
- Porchdog
(Howl - implementation of the
Zeroconf networking standard.
License: BSD-style and parts as
APSL)
- RealNetworks (Helix DNA -
client/server framework for media streaming)
- Sun (Projects of which many are
non-free, and/or use Java, or are product specific code forks)
