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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Open Source vs. Proprietary. Who won?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This epic battle between Open Source software (or Free software) and proprietary software is coming to a close. Some might argue that FOSS won the battle. Others would argue that proprietary software won. I’m going to argue that both won, and both lost. The Desktop. About 10 years ago, the very big FOSS vs. Proprietary battle was between Linux and Microsoft.

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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. It actually has more to it than that, there is a drawing program, a database, a math equation editor and more. It has been in development as OpenOffice.org since 1999, when Sun Microsystems bought the code from a company called Star Division (remember StarOffice?

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a long time. I’m an unrepentant, unabashed technophile. OK, well, not so unrepentant or unabashed since I’m writing this post on the varied factors around technology and the environment, and have been thinking about this issue for myself for a long time. And I will start this post off by being clear – this is as much of an internal, personal conflict for me, and a way in which I see my own behavior and my values diverge at ti

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Why Zen?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

“Only the present moment is real and available to us. The peace we desire is not in some distant future, but it is something we can realize in the present moment.&# –Thich Nhat Hahn. I have been thinking about why I decided to call this blog “Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology&# recently. I named it that back in 2006 when I resurrected this blog (pun not really intended) after my time in seminary.

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