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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily.

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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.) Zend seems to have done a pretty good job maintaining PHP while also doing business. Mitchell 10.25.07

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. It will be interesting to watch things develop. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Jobs was as usual quite prescient. By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Another example is Goodwill, a nonprofit that sells merchandise to support its core function of finding jobs for hard-to-place individuals. Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). Banks were not lending.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.