Picked this up from [l:http://feeds.feedburner.com/SocialSourceSoftware?m=27|David Geilhufe]

We think the future is a network of commercial and nonprofit entities that drive an open source community that develops software. We think nonprofits need to:

1. Act faster than they have ever acted before in adopting alien technologies and business models (open source).
2. Act in ways they have yet to understand (partners in open source communities that develop software).
3. Keep an eye on market and social forces that are foreign to them (open source ecosystems).

It's a radical thought, but one with significant potential to meet nonprofit technology needs in an affordable, ubiquitous, effective,and understandable (to nonprofits) way.

And I couldn't agree more. Why shouldn't non profits "own" the technology? And of course by "own" i don't mean keep it proprietary, but why should Npos live in a world where they are renting technology that they are helping to develop through their feature requests and useability feedback?