[sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

[Peter von Kaehne]

Jim Kinsman wrote:
> I don't see the problem in allowing compatibility for e-sword modules, 
> they are just an access database password protected,
> if the user paid for one -- i did -- then it makes sense, the only 
> problem is it uses RTF format which is annoying to parse.

They were. E-sword now uses sqlite - since e-sword9.

Peter


> 
> But anyway, if interested, I found a pretty decent c++ written rtf 
> parser that i was going to attempt to use.
> 
> -Jim
> 
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jonmmorgan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Jónatas
>     Ferreira<jonatasferreira at mac.com <mailto:jonatasferreira at mac.com>>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      > Em 2009/07/27, às 13:59, sword-devel-request at crosswire.org
>     <mailto:sword-devel-request at crosswire.org> escreveu:
>      >
>      >> It doesn't seem all that impossible.  At those prices, mental
>     math says
>      >> the breakeven is 500 copies.  You just need the $10000 up front.
>      >>
>      >> If ten CrossWire people kicked in $1000 each (or twenty people @
>     $500
>      >> each), and if (a big if?) there was a reasonable expectation of
>     selling
>      >> 500 NIV modules within a year or two, it would be doable.  Are
>     there 500
>      >> CrossWire users interested in the NIV at this price?  Doing
>     something
>      >> like that would change the "feel" of what CrossWire is,
>     somewhat, so the
>      >> group would have to decide if this sort of venture is something it
>      >> *wants* to do.  But to me, it sounds fairly feasible, *if* the group
>      >> chooses to make it a serious goal.
>      >>
>      >> Jonathan
>      >
>      > The problem with charging for a module for Sword is that,
>     generally, when
>      > people think about open-source they think "free" and they don't
>     want to pay
>      > for anything. One example that proves my point is that, whenever
>     someone
>      > tries to sell Sword copies, people come here and ask if it is
>     legal to sell
>      > copies of Sword.
> 
>     And e-Sword costs how much?  I know what you mean, but it is more
>     legal to sell Sword frontends than it is to sell e-Sword.
> 
>     While many people do see e-Sword as free and don't want to pay for
>     anything with it, obviously others are buying the NIV, NKJV, Message,
>     etc. to make it worth selling it.  I don't know whether it would be
>     the same with Sword, but I imagine so.
> 
>     Jon
> 
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