Arundel House of Hope and Mavenspire, Inc. Announce Partnership to Help the
Homeless
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| Mavenspire is providing 40 voice lines for homeless job-seekers to put on
| resumes. Digium's open source Asterisk system is a key element in allowing
| this free service.
|
| [...]
|
| "Open source allows us to do something positive for our community now,
| without requiring us to be a huge company with massive resources. Without the
| Digium Asterisk technology, I doubt a company our size would even consider
| that we would be able to make much of a difference."
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/09/prweb554578.htm
Microsoft recently abandoned free/discounted offers to charities (in the UK at
least), leaving their data locked in to the vendor and requiring them to pay.
More examples below.
Related:
Working Linux Emergency Response System Undermined at Homeland Security by
Microsoft Lobbying
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| LAMP is at the heart of Emergency Response Network Systems and is
| saving lives. But recently, Microsoft maneuvered into taking the system
| away from a Free Software vendor.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57181/
Will Microsoft's Katrina Goodwill Go Bad?
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| The first benefit really goes to Microsoft and its reseller partners rather
| than to the larger group of small businesses seeking aid. What kind of
| hurricane relief is that?
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/will_microsofts_katrina_goodwill_go_bad.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2neepw
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
|
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
|
| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?
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| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
,----[ Quote ]
| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733
Free software for non-profits?
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| It was essentially the "No one gets fired for hiring IBM" idea. Yes,
| I'm mixing metaphors... sort of.
|
| The non-profit community touches the lives of one in three of us
|
| Charities get great discounts from Microsoft (up to 90%!). So, the
| high cost of Microsoft products is less of an issue for them.
|
| What would it take, then, to convince charities to make the switch?
|
| The answer is simple, and yet not so obvious: good adaptable case
| management software for human services non-profits.
|
| The only generalized case management applications for human
| services non-profits are expensive and proprietary
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/free_software_for_non-profits
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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