I've got a windows xp box at home (in addition to a red hat box), and I 
run as much GPL software on it as I can... 
Thunderbird and Firebird and Open Office - oh my!
I've been steadily moving my wife away from IE and Outlook - I forgot to 
tell her when I made mozilla the default browser and the fire breathing 
monster scared her - she said "I've never seen a virus, but this has got 
to be one."

I also tried to install open office and mozilla on a windows 2000 
computer at work (I work for a large public flagship university here in 
town), and was told to uninstall them because they were:
a) a security risk because they were "open"
and
b) buggy and prone to break other software because they weren't 
microsoft products

Michael

John Hebert wrote:

>BTW: Cool beans to you for running free|open source software on Windoze.
>I'd like to see more people doing so. Is there anybody running or
>wanting to run free software on M$ Windoze on this mailing list? I say
>attack M$ on all fronts (OpenOffice is da bomb!).
>
>John Hebert
>  
>

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