Yes. Examples? How about Automattic, Inc., the folks behind Wordpress? But maybe one can define what they do as "support and maintenance". Or IBM, they sell h

Yes. Examples? How about Automattic, Inc., the folks behind Wordpress? But maybe one can define what they do as "support and maintenance". Or IBM, they sell hardware, (among other things) but with open-source operating systems on it. They contribute to the development of this software. We, Akvo Foundation, also release open-source code of our products but may not qualify in your normal definition of "business". http://akvo.org/ http://akvo.org/ Akvo is a non-profit foundation, but one which has as one of its goals to be able to self sustainable on the charges for running some of our services. We are what some people call a "social enterprise". So some of the main differences between us and a "standard" company is: - some of our investors don't expect to get paid back in money, but rather in increased efficiency / improvements / new ways of doing business, within the sector we are working in, water and sanitation development aid (we also have investors who expect some ROI in the form of cash). - we can't turn a profit, but neither should we run at a loss.