Software and Nonprofit Organizations
Just like governments, more and more nonprofit organizations are either using externally developed software or are developing their own software. And, just like the government, the goal of a nonprofit organization is to increase the general welfare of a given population. The Object Management Group (OMG), for instance, exists to develop “technically excellent, commercially viable and vendor independent specifications for the software industry” [OMG04]. Other computer hardware- and software-related nonprofit organizations include the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the Software Productivity ...
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