On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:03 -0700, Leslie wrote: > 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.
Well Padre, You too should live dangerously. There are a number of notation programs out there that are native to Linux plus some, such as Noteworthy Composer, that work well under Wine the windows emulator. Please see http://www.freebyte.com/music/#free_notation for a list of possibles. -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
