be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.


Hi Vicky

If you have a copy of OpenOffice.org on disc, then you may simply
duplicate the discs and give them to your friends.  There is no need to
purchase more CDs, as the GNU Public license gives you the right to
distribute the program.  Most distributors of OpenOffice.org charge a
token fee to cover their costs in purchasing, burning, packaging and
mailing disks, although the program is free to download.

In theory, I could ask $300.00 for the software I put on my CDs, and I
may find a few who would pay it.  Make no mistake, this is a high
quality product, but the Open Source way of doing things is intended to
significantly benefit the community of computer users.  

Why more Churches have not abandoned their support of Microsoft just
beggars belief. Can you imagine the licence fees that a large missionary
organisation pays to use MS Office, what does this say about their
stewardship? And why support an abusive monopolist (convicted) with the
LORDs money?

With the tools that are available through Open Source software, a Church
could run without Microsoft at all, and the funds could be applied to
the mission field.

I threw this in because of your signature text.

God bless
Andrew Greig
Melbourne, Australia
Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org

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