Things like this are what is wrong with the world. :-) michael dolan wrote:
> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
