1. Company Rules

1.1. Motives and Intentions

The Company is created to generate income and profit for the employees, not to get sold for the benefit of its members.
The Company has the following broad aims:
1. to provide professional software development services.
2. to produce high-quality software products.
3. to provide an enjoyable work environment and experience for it’s employees.
4. to develop skills in the local markets in which it operates.
5. to promote the adoption and development of open source projects.
If the Company grows too big it or demand warrants it, it will be split into several business units or companies.
Where appropriate, software produced by the company will be open/free source (with the exception to classified customer projects). At equal profit company will prefer to do open/free software projects.
The Company needs to be long term cost efficient in its daily operation. This should be considered when choosing software, phone usage, equipment etc.
The Company will strive to be efficient and effective in all it’s operations.
The Company will strive for having as much of its plans and information publicly available.
All rules of the Company will be made public on its web site.

The Company should make it enjoyable to work for the Company.
The Company will make it easy and convenient for employees to work from any location should they so wish.
The Company should budget for at least 3 travelling meetings for every employee to ensure that people can work efficiently and get to know each other. One of the meetings should be an all company meeting.

The Company will strive for long term relationships with customers and clients.
The customer or client has the final word on their satisfaction levels.
Should a customer or client be unsatisfied with the product or service received from the Company, their payments will be refunded pro-rata to the amount of work already done by the Company.
The pro-rata amounts or refund amounts should be clearly communicated to the Customer or Client before the purchase of products or services from the Company.

The Company will employee people based on their merits. They will not be discriminated based on their gender, race, religion, location or marital status.
The employment of friends or family of existing employees need to be approved by the supervisory board.
The Company will respect the individuality of its employees. If the employee has reasonable “extra” demands they need to be seriously considered. (For example when it comes to work on weekends, room sharing, not wanting to travel, etc).
The Company will not require people to work on weekends. The Company has the right to ask the employee to work on weekends but the employee has the right to refuse without any consequences.
For time critical, high paid, highly protifable projects that require double working hours, the Company will pay three times the salary and/or offer paid vacation days.
The Company will actively encourage its employees to take out their vacation and not save it for later. This is especially important for employees that are “burning out”.
The Company will actively encourage and assist its employees to further their training and education.

Unless otherwise negotiated works created by the Company and it’s Employees or Contractors will remain the property of the Company and the Company will retain ownership and copyright of the works in question.
Products created by the Company will be licensed to Customers and Clients unless otherwise negotiated.
In some cases Customers and Clients may negotiate the transfer of ownership of works from the Company to themselves. Examples of such cases include bespoke developments in which the clients have an interest in owning the end product.
Customers and Clients may request software escrow agreements in which the source code of works licensed by them are held in escrow in case of the Company’s failure to meet its obligations.