[sword-devel] NIV electronic licencing

[Chris Bitmead]

God made a natural scarcity of material things. But he made no natural 
scarcity of ideas or his word.

Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:

>I agree. I am also getting tired of people making a profit off of water,
>electricity, and food. Didn't god create these things? What right does a
>person have to sell them and make a profit on God's creation?
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>by grace alone,
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>Don A. Elbourne Jr.
>http://elbourne.org
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Greg Marine" <gregmarine@iccnet.org>
>To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [sword-devel] NIV electronic licencing
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>>Just my two cents on licensing...
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>>I'm so frustrated by the fact that "God's Word" is licensed at all. I
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>understand that money had to be involved with the translating/publishing
>process, but the fact texts like NIV is "licensed" means profit. I'm
>beginning to sway away from such versions and translations and moving
>towards public domain texts. I'm doing the same with Windows to Linux. I've
>even paid for a distribution just because of the freedoms in the GNU GPL
>license.
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>>Anyway, as I said, it's just my two cents. Thanks for listening to my
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>little rant :-)
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>>God Bless <><
>>Greg
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