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Oct 10, 2021
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Feb 18, 2020
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- James M. Whitehurst: The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
Jul 18, 2018
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- The Open Company Initiative directory (OCI):
A group of companies which explicitly adopted OCI's openness pledge
- (dormant)
Aug 08, 2016
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- Awesome Open (⭐57): A curated list of organizations, projects and initiatives that maintain open codebases and datasets
Jun 28, 2016
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- Shereef Bishay: The open enterprise manifesto
Jun 06, 2015
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- Paul Graham: What business can learn from open source
- Massimo Menichinelli: Business models for open hardware
- Chad Whitacre: The second open company
- Timothy Cook: Why open companies? A new culture of business
Apr 29, 2015
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- The VAR Guy's The Open Source 50 (2009 list, 2010 list, 2012 update)
- (unmaintained)
Apr 22, 2015
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- 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)
Apr 13, 2015
What is an open company?
- releasing its products as free and open source software, open content, or open source hardware
- using open standards and inter-operable formats
- developing its products openly, using public communication channels
- publishing as much financial and operational data as possible, without compromising customer privacy.
- etc.
- Open business: Wikipedia article
- Open business: from the P2P Foundation wiki
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- Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams: Wikinomics
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- Chris Anderson: A business model for open source hardware
- The Economist: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual
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