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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Benetech Labs: what are our intellectual property policies on Labs projects if we host projects proposed by third parties?

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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