Donating Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @11:02PM from the let-someone-else-make-use-of-it dept.

nuxx asks: "I have a copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition here, with 25 Client Access Licenses which I don't need. I don't want to throw it away, but because it's a Not For Resale copy, I can't list it on eBay. So, I'd like to give it to a charity. It's a completely new, unused, legal copy which was handed to me by a Microsoft rep a few weeks ago, so this should be legal to do. The problem is, I'm not really sure how to donate software to a charity. Does anyone have any experience with this? Do you know of any resources available regarding how to send such donations and which organizations find them useful?"

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Re:techsoup by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-19 01:25 · Score: 3, Interesting

Techsoup Stock is the registered MS partner for their software donations. This means you can buy _any_ MS product for substainially reduced rates if you are a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Windows XP upgrades are $8 - Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit is $160.
This is a fantastic resource for nonprofits and nonprofit IT managers (like me). They also offer software from Adobe, Symantec & Cisco equipment, amongst others. Excellent resource.
The answer to your question might be that it is actually cheaper & easier for many nonprofits to buy software than figure out the legalities of donating it! Or, if you can indeed donate it, donate it to a charity that is not able to meet techsoup's requirements.

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