On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:51, you wrote: > Wasting money is a moral crime. If your church has excess cash, I > presume it spends it on doing good for the community. The more excess it > has, the more it can spend on doing good. Therefore the less it has, the > less good it can do. Therefore the choice of Microsoft/commercial > software as opposed to equivalent[1] OOS is a choice to do less good, > which is evil.
Amen. I'm a Methodist. John Wesley would wholeheartedly agree with the above. Good stewardship of God-given resources is an integral part of Methodism. Now if I can just present the above argument to Synod, and they see the light, we'll have a few thousand parishes set free from the yoke of Redmond! Yuri
