How Open Source is Losing the Charity Battle | Linux Today

How Open Source is Losing the Charity Battle

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2008

“Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging
technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software
as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support
options is keeping them away from open source software and focused
on traditional providers such as Microsoft.

“At this week’s Connecting Up conference in Brisbane, staff from
non-profit groups were eagerly discussing Web 2.0 technologies, how
wikis could help their organisation, and the role which Twitter
might play in their fund-raising plans…”


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Web Webster

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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