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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Lots of open source companies (RedHat, MySQL AB, Novell, Alfresco, SugarCRM, Canonical) are doing similar things. For you purists: don’t get all upset.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. In the early 2000s, companies such as Google and Facebook, communication, and sharing in the digital world took off, connecting people around the planet with each other.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

" ClientTrack | Win ClientTrack Express – "For the first time in our company's history, we are giving away one full use license of ClientTrack Express for one (1) year, including the server space required at our secure data location. The total value of the prize could be up to $7,200!

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Zoetica’s Charity Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. The deadline is this Sunday February 28, 2010, 12 midnight PST. We are looking for three things: 1.

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More FUD from Redmond

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Microsoft is a powerful company, with a lot of money in the bank, and a near ubiquitous market penetration in some quarters. make functional software).

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News from NTC ‘08

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. So, good news that companies are starting to see that opening their source can be done without completely cannibalizing their revenue, but I find it hard to believe that this product is going to gain a lot of traction.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 2 admin 07.07.08

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