On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 21:25 -0500, Walter Bartel wrote: Greetings. I am a pastor and use my computer mainly for Church work.
As another pastor (an Anglican priest), I'd encourage you to look at OpenOffice for ethical reasons as well as practical ones. Most of the churches I've encountered are either using hand-me-down software of dubious legality or the pastor's personal copy - we can't afford the prices Microsoft or the other commercial software providers charge. OpenOffice's price is right, and the cooperative concept, where we work together to make an excellent product even better, seems theologically right as well. I've switched our church to open source software whenever possible - the Mozilla web browser and mail program are excellent and free as well - and I'm trying to get up the courage to switch the church machine to Linux. There's only one piece of software we need Windows for, a music writing program. The only other factor holding me back is our volunteers' reluctance to try something a little new-looking.
Live dangerously! Try OpenOffice.
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