From a friend:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?q=article/304048/microsoft_ charity_crackdown_spurs_boycott&fp=&fpid=

Microsoft charity crackdown spurs boycott Charities prep for open source

What's "open source", you ask? In practice, the Linux operating system and other software.

Anyone for Ubuntu? http://www.ubuntu.org (or its other flavours, notably Kubuntu http://www.kubuntu.org or commercially supported Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/, or Novel's SuSE 11.1 http://www.novell.com/linux/) -- I've used them all and there is NO PROBLEM for the home or office environment. Here's an article that will help you 'convert' (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-guide,2293.html# "Desktop Linux For The Windows Power User")

Alternatively, on 'owned' Windoze systems, just install (as I use)

Mozilla's Firefox browser and Thunderbird email software http://www.mozilla.org and OpenOffice.org's suite of office productivity tools http://www.openoffice.org .

May 2009