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FOSS Foundations Directory

There are a number of commercial or for-profit entities that are often confused with similarly-named or widely-used open source projects or products. This listing is a very brief selection of some of the major commercial entities people might think of, to serve as an example of some companies that are not in the foundations listing.

  • Progress Chef

    https://www.chef.io/
    Notable Project(s): Chef; Progress
    Progress Chef is the new Chef Software, Inc., main driver of the Chef line of defops tools.

  • Red Hat, Inc.

    https://www.redhat.com/
    Notable Project(s): RHEL; Fedora
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the commercially supported version built atop the open source Fedora project.

  • Docker, Inc.

    https://www.docker.com/
    Notable Project(s): Docker
    Docker has always been a commerical company with a number of open source provided tools.

  • Mozilla Corporation

    https://www.mozilla.org/
    Notable Project(s): Firefox
    Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit.

  • MariaDB plc

    https://mariadb.com/
    Notable Project(s): MariaDB
    MariaDB plc is the current publicly traded commercial company building atop the open source MariaDB SQL database.

  • SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH

    https://www.suse.com/
    Notable Project(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise; openSUSE
    SUSE supports commercial Linux distros atop the openSUSE project.