Category talk:Free software companies

Postive and negative examples[edit]

Looking at the contents of the category should provide positive examples of companies that do qualify. Negative examples of companies that do not qualify are

Linspire, since, as far as I know, the focus of their software promotion is on proprietary software which they add onto free software
IBM, since, as far as I know, although they promote free software a lot, this is dwarfed by their promotion of non-free software
CodeWeavers, since they focus on a proprietary version of Wine, not the free software version
TransGaming Technologies, since they focus on a proprietary version of Wine, not the free software version

Please add more examples if you can. Gronky 21:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some italian companies... evaluate them...

Xsec, Simo Sorce, Samba development team
Prosa, Paolo Didoné, the first(?) italian freesoftware company
iCube, Pisa(?)
Yacme, Bologna
Tecnoteca,
MG Engineering, Milano
GNUDD, Alessandro Rubini, author of the book "Linux Device Drivers"
Purotesto, coming soon... ;)
Truelite, Firenze

by Guido Serra

http://guidoserra.it

Some or all of them might qualify, but none of them have Wikipedia articles about them which could be added to the category. G10 Code and Intevation are two other free software companies that would qualify but Wikipedia also doesn't have an article about either. Thanks for the company names though. Gronky 22:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Listing on gnu.org[edit]

On this webpage: http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html

In the section "Companies that support free software development, and exclusively free software development" (more than half way down the page), there is a list of companies that the GNU project calls free software companies. Mabye some of them have Wikipedia articles. --Gronky (talk) 09:58, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]