Re: Church opensource.

[Patrick Dunford]

Nick Rout wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:55:33 +1300
Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

it's not being used and do it 
then.  There's no way you'd need five licenses, purely for the 
convenience of being able to work at home instead of going down to the 
church and doing it during the week when there are no services on. I 
worked in a church of 500, there was only one license for the software 
they used, and the several hundred songs were all typed in at that one 
machine.
   

not convinced, anyway the thread started with talk of a church
effectively getting a number of workstations. and aren't computers about
convenience?
 

I can't answer spurious reasons given when pursuing an ideological 
crusade, which is what some of the answers in this thread strongly 
resemble. Whether you like it or not, most people out there run Windows. 
They are not going to install Linux just because some people think Bill 
Gates is the antichrist. The current church I attend is a smaller one 
about 200 in size. They don't have a lot of money, but were able to come 
up with enough to buy the PC, projector and Windows software they 
needed, because it represented about one or two weeks' offerings. Now 
maybe a church of 50 would have a little trouble but with such a small 
number of people a projector is a gross overkill anyway. A big TV with a 
VGA to TV adapter would do for such a small group.