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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For most of that time, except when I was doing heavy collaborative editing with colleagues who are using MS Office, it is my Office Suite of choice. ’).

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. " "Doesn't scale."