ThoughtWorks believes in Open Source Software and supports it in a number of ways.
At ThoughtWorks, our technical communities provide an environment supportive of developers working on open source initiatives. Our legal department assists projects by helping them with licensing and intellectual property issues. Wherever possible, we promote 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.
We’re always interested in having people join us in the movement to promote and distribute free software. We regularly sponsor meetings by different groups in the community and are happy to have people come along.
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