uctpjac writes "Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation fellow, guru on all things open, writes that open source is the answer to philanthropy's $55 Trillion question: how to spend the money it expects to flow into foundations over the next 25 years? Whereas others have slashed out at "Philanthro-Capitalism" — claiming that the charitable giving of Gates and others simply extends power in the market to power over society — Surman believes that open source shows the way to the harmonious yin-yang of business and not-for-profit. Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Yahoo, Facebook are the big backers of Creative Commons; Ubuntu is a for-profit company and Mozilla has spawned two for-profits. Open source shows that philanthropy and business can co-habit and mutually thrive. Indeed, philanthropy might learn from open source to find new ways to organise itself to spend those $55Tr." Link to Original Source
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