Open Source Software at ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks believes in Open Source Software and supports it in a number of ways. At ThoughtWorks our innovation network and the technical communities provide an environment for developers to spend dedicated company time on their open source initiatives. ThoughtWorks Studios is not only about commercial products but also about open source software, developing and supporting solutions such as CruiseControl and RubyWorks. In exceptional cases we have hired open source committers to allow them to focus on important open source projects as part of their day-to-day work. Our legal department gives assistance to projects by helping them with licensing and intellectual property issues. Finally, ThoughtWorks sponsors regular meetings by different groups in the open source community.
Where possible ThoughtWorks promotes the use of open source software on development projects. From our experience innovative approaches and pragmatic solutions for a particular technical problem are often created in the context of a larger business-driven development effort by practitioners in the field. When released as open source software these solutions get generalised and become part of the toolchest for the entire community. ThoughtWorks selects and benefits from a huge number of great open source projects and at the same time strives to give back to the open source community by releasing and supporting several open source projects. Driven by a passion for technology and software many ThoughtWorkers have also started new projects and/or contributed to existing open source projects.
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