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Does this apply to non-profit open source communities?
Probably, if it's officially registered as a non-profit.

I worked for a film festival for several years, and our non-profit status let us use google apps for free, as well as reasonable amount of adwords credit.

Hmm . . . can't think of the last time I heard about a non-profit organization changing the world. Except if you count governments.
I'm guessing non-profits routinely save many tens of thousands of lives every year at least. Wouldn't you count that?

By the way, does anyone have any actual numbers on how many lives are saved by non-profits in aggregate?

Off the top of my head:

Amnesty International

Greenpeace

WWF

Red Cross and ICRC

Oxfam

Numerous planned parenthood organisations

Numerous medical foundations

Gates Foundation

Grameen Bank

Numerous arts organisations and Rockefeller/Tate/etc foundations

The agricultural "green revolution " , which probably saved around a billion lives , was started by the Rockefeller foundation who cooperated on agricultural research with the mexican and u.s. governments.
Doctors without borders

International Red Cross

World Health Organization and its predecessors as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization (which have eradicated smallpox, renderpest, and have nearly wiped out polio and guinea worm disease)

UNICEF

A big company does some PR. Is there really nothing better for the front page?
This is why I will favor google over apple every day. Steve Jobs killed all of Apple's philanthropic efforts when he came back.
That's how PR works. Thanks for buying into it so the rest of us have to hear about even more of it. Do you know why Jobs killed it off? Maybe he found out the organizations they were giving to were scams and lost faith in it. Judging a company based on how concerned they are with PR seems just a bit naive.