Some organizations/companies commitment to open-source goes as far as releasing all their products as open-source software. There are other ways of making an undertaking profitable than keeping the code proprietary, locked, hidden.
The goal of this list is to highlight such organizations, which release everything they do under a licence that empowers the user of the product. This does not include "Open Core" products since part of the product is under a proprietary license.
Organizations selling hosting for their product are only admitted if the self-hosted version offers all the features the paid hosted version has.
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Funding legend used:
- 💰, for the venture capital circuit
- 🔬, for research grants
- 👢, for bootstrapped
- 👥, crowdfunding, donations, or Patreon like model
- 👢 Artsy, on Github: the online platform for art collecting and education, which maintain a philosophy of keeping their work Open by Default.
- 🔬 Dat Project, grant, on GitHub: A distributed data community.
- 💰 Discourse, seed, on GitHub: The 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
- 👢 EteSync, on GitHub: End-to-end encrypted & journaled sync for your contacts and calendars.
- 👥 Framasoft, on their GitLab: a network dedicated to globally promoting "free" and particularly free software.
- 👥 Habitica, on GitHub: a habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
- 👢 Feedbin, on GitHub: a fast, simple RSS reader that delivers a great reading experience.
- 👢 Healthchecks, on GitHub: Monitoring for your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs and background tasks.
- 👢 Impactasaurus, on GitHub: A simple tool for charities to measure and report on their social impact.
- 👥 Keyboardio, on GitHub: an open source and hardware keyboard for uncompromising typists.
- 👢 Kopano, on their Bitbucket: Your Data, Your Terms. In control of your data with Kopano’s self-hosted collaboration suite.
- 👢 Loomio, on GitHub: an open-source web application that helps groups of people to make decisions together.
- 👢 Maintainer Mountaineer, on GitHub: maintenance and community building for FLOSS organizations
- 👥 Mastodon, sponsors, on GitHub: Social networking, back in your hands.
- 👢 Monica, on GitHub: CRM for personal relationships.
- 👥 Mycroft AI, on GitHub: Open Source Voice Assistant
- 👢 Nextcloud, on GitHub: self-hosted personal cloud solution (file syncing, agenda, contact, etc.)
- 👢 Numenta, on GitHub: Brain-inspired machine intelligence algorithms.
- 👢 Open Whisper Systems, on GitHub: creating Signal, a fast, simple, and secure communication app.
- 💰 Puri.sm, $5.6M, on their Cogs & on GitHub: High-quality laptops that protect your freedom and privacy.
- 💰 Protocol Labs, $3M, on GitHub at IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Multiformats: creating open source distributed protocol for the future of the internet.
- 👢 Redash, on GitHub: a tool to make sense of your data (connect your data sources, query and visualize them).
- 💰 Rocket.Chat, $5M, on GitHub: the ultimate Free Open Source Solution for team communication.
- 💰 Sentry, $10.5M, on GitHub: real-time crash reporting for your web apps, mobile apps, and games.
- 👢 Spectrum, on GitHub: the community platform for the future.
- 💰 WSO2, $45M, on GitHub: WSO2 is a leading open source integration vendor that offers a complete platform to accelerate digital native initiatives.
- 👢 Zulip, on GitHub: the world's most productive group chat
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Awesome Open Source Organizations.