High-tech social enterprise reaps free software's benefits

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 6, 2006 9:15 PM EDT
NewsForge; By Michael Stutz
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Benetech is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to use technology to improve the world. The organization's varied projects toward doing so include reading tools for the blind, landmine detection hardware, and a software system to document human rights violations. To help them in their work, the organization's 30 employees worldwide, from Bangkok to Africa to the US West Coast, depend upon free software -- but not exclusively.

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