[LUNI] General Opinion question..

[Mark Stuart Burge]

The porting of Powerchurch - a windows based accounting program designed 
for church management would be the final thing needed to switch many 
churches over to linux.

Clyde Forrester wrote:
> At first my reaction was something like:
>   Yes, I am annoyed and disturbed that someone has Christianity boiled 
> down to just:
>      1. Put the Bible on a computer.
>      2. Ban pornography.
>   It just seems like christians should have some better priorities.
>
> But, now that I think about it, I can't think of anything else a 
> christian OPERATING SYSTEM ought to do besides have a copy of the 
> Bible, and try to keep the kids out of trouble.
>
> Frankly, I'd like to see the mass marketing of a low-power, text-based 
> system which would have versions of the Bible, Old Testament, 
> Al-Qur'an, Urantia Book, Oahspe, Book of Mormon and/or whatever, and 
> the ability to extensively annotate and cross-reference, and in as 
> many languages as possible. Maybe they'll get around to doing this 
> with one of those hand-cranked $100 MIT computers.
>
> Samir Faci wrote:
>
>> Okay, so here goes:
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1427222
>>
>> Ubuntu Christian Edition.  It's a remap of Ubuntu, includes all the 
>> stuff
>> that comes with Ubuntu plus christian/bible software plus 
>> DansGuardian and
>> other web filtering products that block and sensor pornography and other
>> inappropriate material.
>>
>> What does everyone think of that?  I find it slightly.. annoying and
>> disturbing to use something so open as Linux and OSS to put out a 
>> product
>> that's meant to censor.  Doesn't this go against much of the OSS
>> philosophy?
>>
>> Is it just me misreading this?  I might be overthinking it, we've had a
>> philosophy geek meeting at the lug lately, I might be still in that 
>> mode.
>>
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