DriverHeaven: Open Source–More of a Reality Than Many People Realize

“Right now I am writing this document on OpenOffice.org Writer,
while browsing the Internet with Mozilla Firefox and checking my
emails with Thunderbird. Friends of mine can reach me through Gaim,
and if I need to see photos or retouch images, The Gimp is my best
friend. I know your first thought is that I am working with Linux
and all I want to do is show-off my cool open source applications.
Actually, that would be far from the truth. I am working under
Windows XP.

“You probably noticed that between these applications that I
mentioned, not one of them belongs to good old Microsoft. If
someone came to me a few years back, and told me that I would be
working with so many high-quality open source applications, I’d
probably dismiss him as a Linux fanboy…”

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