http://www.netsquared.org/tags/nptech-floss-open-source-business-net2 share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/tim-bishop/notes-from-the-state-of-open-source-software-for-nonprofits-session <p>Patrick Ball starts session by asking why do we need PowerPoint instead of Open Source at this conference? No good answer.</p> <h2>Andrew Aitken</h2> <p>from alliance org, open source consulting to Fortune 500</p> <p>Talks about the value of a commercial ecosystem</p> <p>He fell in love with a movement, based on Eric Raymond&#39;s &quot;the Cathedral and the Bazaar&quot; <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/" title="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/">http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/</a></p> <p>Healthy <strong>commercial</strong> Open Source spurs innovation</p> <p>More than 20 proprietary vendors have open sourced their code in the last month, SugarCRM andFunabol</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/tim-bishop/notes-from-the-state-of-open-source-software-for-nonprofits-session">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/tim-bishop/notes-from-the-state-of-open-source-software-for-nonprofits-session#comments nptech floss open source business net2 Open source for nonprofits Tue, 30 May 2006 16:34:39 -0400 Tim Bishop 1586 at http://www.netsquared.org