As helloiamaperson said, the IP is owned by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Pivotal has an interest in making Cloud Foundry awesome because we sell products and services based on it.<p>But IBM also has such an interest, so too HP and Fujitsu and NTT and Anynines and Intel and other members of the Foundation I&#x27;ve rudely neglected.<p>In a given team you can often find engineers from multiple companies. Or you&#x27;ll find that different companies will provide a team. For example, the `cf` CLI was previously a Pivotal team, then a mixed Pivotal-IBM team, then an IBM team, now I believe Fujitsu are assigning engineers.<p>Voting rights in the Foundation are proportional to contributions, so it&#x27;s in the interest of each participant to be generous in providing people, resources and IP. A defined high-level process, modelled after Pivotal&#x27;s, is used to ensure a common approach to working on the platform -- pair programming, TDD, product management from a Tracker backlog and so forth. Every engineer goes through the same &quot;dojo&quot; onboarding.<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone has ever tried anything quite like this before. At the corporate level it&#x27;s press releases at twenty paces, but in the trenches it&#x27;s a lot more seamless.