Open Source Nonprofit Software

MPower users Precept Ministries International, Turning Point, and Amazing Facts have recently contributed three new product innovations for MPower’s nonprofit constituent relationship management software. MPower is proud to provide these new innovations to current and future users and are confident that these contributions will allow nonprofits to continue to grow and develop their own innovations [...]

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Open source software is nothing new. In fact, many developers have been working to bring open source software to the mainstream market for many years. While some may think that the open source community is nothing but a bunch of geeks, this could not be further from the truth. Times have changed over the last [...]

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A new study released by O’Reilly Research shows that there are multiple reasons for the steady rise of open source software. The top six reasons include quality, cost, security, agility, scale, decreased vendor lock-in, and innovation.
Open source software has the ability to decrease vendor lock-in, allowing open source software users to avoid the dramatics of [...]

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An alpha verson of Alitheia Core, a tool used to check the quality of open source software, has recently been released by the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS). Several companies, academic institutions, and open source projects have been working on the development of the checker throughout areas of Europe.
A press release recently [...]

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When two friends use similar programs, one open-source, one proprietary, a host of differences arise between the two types. Compared with a hard to reach, unresponsive technical support team, open-source developers are usually passionate and eager to improve the functionality of their work. Free software creators have a vested interest in their products [...]

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