Open Source at Bosch

Following our slogan "Invented for life", open source and InnerSource are vital instruments to move technologies forward. We leverage open and InnerSource in our business to provide our customers, employees, and partners with the best experience that technology can provide. We encourage collaboration and funding open source projects around the world. Consequently, we also support and reward our employees for their contributions in open source projects.

Bosch aims to be a model citizen in the open source world and a leading practitioner in InnerSource development.

Foster and sustain open source communities: We encourage collaboration in open source projects that we consume and use in our business. We sustain community initiatives by supporting events, projects, and open source initiatives.

Facilitate open source participation: We shape our participation in open source via adequate resources and promote reasons for contributing to open source projects.

Shape open source with contributions: We strive to generate impact and drive industry-wide open source initiatives to garner confidence of our customers, employees, and partners and show ourselves as a formidable force in the open source.

Demonstrate Bosch values: We demonstrate Bosch values such as "openness and trust", "initiative and determination", and "reliability, credibility, legality" through our engagement with open source communities.

Make open source a way of life at Bosch: We follow and implement its principles like collaboration, transparency, and reuse in our engineering activities.

Prefer open source and InnerSource: We first check for options in open and InnerSource when there is a need for writing new custom code.