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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 14, 2008
is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) twitter can’t do that What do you think? You can log in using OpenID.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 13, 2007
No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 14, 2008
They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 1, 2007
I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 21, 2007
Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
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
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