Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. In the beginning, it was lack of software (I first tried this back in 1999), or printer drivers. I stopped at the license agreement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07 to develop open source software. at 2:40 pm That’s sad. Xen comes to mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. Why can’t they just focus on making good software? The software will speak for itself (or it won’t.) make functional software).

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JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

(Ubuntu is based on Debian). It has a vibrant user community. Debian is the favorite of most serious Linux geeks. And, luckily, once you’ve learned some Linux, supporting other distributions isn’t such a big deal. { 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07 Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) So what’s the right strategy?

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APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." And, you can run any windows software you want on it, at either native speed, or a bit slower in emulation.

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