About Us : Open Source

We are committed to working with open source solutions to provide our customers with the best value. Our company is based on extensive use of open source software. This choice allows us to significantly reduce software licensing costs associated with our products and services.

We believe the following about Open Source software developers, in general:

• Developers are motivated by pride and reputation
• Developers are likely to want to reduce complexity and improve maintainability
• Easily available source codes encourage peer review, increasing quality
• Developers have a focus on reliability and stability

Open Source software also allows us to:

• Inspect source codes for troubleshooting and bug hunting
• Customise applications for your needs
• Avoid lock-ins, allowing us to switch to alternative implementations
• Easily obtain support from communities of developers

We aim to contribute back to the open source community, primarily through the MillScript project, although we will make contributions to other projects that are appropriate to our clients.

Our computers run a mixture of Linux, Windows XP and Windows Vista. We primarily use Gentoo Linux, but are capable of working with any other Linux distribution.