Philosophy
The Internet is a life-changing technology for many people. It's been the driving force behind the lives of thousands of technologists. However, the Internet is not perfect; the protocols are immature and insecure, and overall the system was not built to do what it is being used for.
Let's face it: The Internet is an amazing experiment.
The driving force behind BitGravity is that we want to see the Internet mature and grow in an ethical, secure, and scalable fashion. We strive to help make the Internet a better place for new technology and the people who enjoy the benefits of that technology. For example, in the past couple years we've gone from delivering static images on web pages to streaming embedded HD videos to wireless laptops in remote places of the world. We've streamed live video from a camera strapped to a rocket in space and powered interactive 3D video games with petabytes of game data (all at a click). We can do a lot of things, but we want to do more.
What the Internet is today will not be what the Internet is tomorrow and we hope to be on the forefront of those changes.
The Ancient Greeks used the term techne to describe the art or the craftsmanship of creating an object for purpose. When it comes to the focus of a corporation typically art is as an aesthetic on a web site or a company logo. It's not often viewed as one of the goals of the technological achievements of a company. However, we're here to take the art of technological craftsmanship, the techne, and use it to push the Internet forward from an experiment to a staple of life.
We're doing this by using philanthropic development with the FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD projects, donating code back to open source communities, releasing software that helps people improve their applications, and our commercial efforts by developing new technologies that scale and secure the Internet.
