It's a Free Country
The FreeCountry is a site that offers free choices for programmers, webmasters and security. They have listings of free compilers, source code, programming tools, emulators and documentation. For those of us who are a little less skilled in high-end technology, they have lists of free applications such as word processors, image editors, drawing programs, CD and DVD burners, and hard drive maintenance.
I would love to see public libraries embrace the free software movement and adopt the software throughout their libraries. I did offer OpenOffice at my previous library but the patrons did not like it. They had difficulty opening their files, though not through any fault of the software itself. It was just different enough from what they were used to that it made it hard.
I personally used OpenOffice for some time and really liked it, though it made file sharing more challenging. Is any library out there running on freeware and loving it?