# Non-profits use open source software

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/09/01/nonprofits-use-open-source-software/
- Published: 2002-09-01T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Open source software is low-cost and often runs well on slightly older computer 
hardware. No wonder non-profit organisations are taking an interest in it.
Writing
in Newsforge, the online newspaper on Linux and open source software, Grant Gross
says that open source software and non-profits are a match made in heaven. One intranet
software company told him “There’s probably more interest [in open source software]
from non-profits than any other vertical we target.”

The reasons for this interest include better products from Linux vendors, the use
of Linux by more for-profit companies, and of course licensing changes at Microsoft
and the cost of buying and running commercial software.

Open Source tools for Web design and hosting are particularly popular with non-profits.
Software in use includes Linux servers, Apache, PHP and MySQL.

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Read _Open Source and non-profits: A match made in heaven_ by Grant Gross at Newsforge.

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