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Mad Penguin: Aspiration Tech: Changing the Work for Social Change

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Web Webster
Jul 26, 2005

[ Thanks to SilentBob4 for this link.
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“Cut-throat competition. Balkanization. Trade secrets. Sharing?
Forget it.

“Remind you of corporate America? Nope. We’re talking
non-profits here. According to this interview with Katrin Verclas,
one of the co-directors of the non-profit group, Aspiration
Tech.org, too many US non-profit groups have, until recently,
competed fiercely and shared little. But she thinks that free open
source software is starting to thaw the icy competition in exciting
ways, and Aspiration Tech, which Katrin co-directs with Allen
(Gunner) Gunn, is all about helping these competitive non-profits
enhance their missions by sharing code. And more…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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