These companies are either adding support services to an existing opensourceproject or creating software and using opensource as a marketing technique.
The project consists of assembling and readapting a package of high quality free opensourcesoftware in three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in Arab countries on USB keys.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon opensourcesoftware and open hardware standards.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.