Open Companies
This is a mirrored zone from the opencompany/awesome-open-company repository. Part of the Awesome list collection.
What is an open company?
2_ENTRIESAn 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:
derived from the original formulation by Gittip (now Gratipay).
In practice, this often means:
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releasing its products as free and open source software, open content, or open source hardware
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using open standards and inter-operable formats
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developing its products openly, using public communication channels
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publishing as much financial and operational data as possible, without compromising customer pr…
- Open business
Wikipedia article
- Open business
from the P2P Foundation wiki
Books
3_ENTRIES- Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams: Wikinomics
- James M. Whitehurst
James M. Whitehurst: The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
Articles
8_ENTRIES- Paul Graham
Paul Graham: What business can learn from open source
- Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli: Business models for open hardware
- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson: A business model for open source hardware
- _The Economist_
The Economist: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual
- Chad Whitacre
Chad Whitacre: The second open company
- Shereef Bishay
Shereef Bishay: The open enterprise manifesto
Videos
1_ENTRIESSimilar lists
3_ENTRIES- The VAR Guy's The Open Source 50 (2009 list, 2010 list, 2012 update)(unmaintained)
- The Open Company Initiative directory
(OCI): A group of companies which explicitly adopted OCI's openness pledge_(dormant)_
- 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)_
- Awesome Open
A curated list of organizations, projects and initiatives that maintain open codebases and datasets