<DIV>Remember: we do not know whether the publishers of most Bibles would be <BR>willing to distribute Bibles in Sword format because we have not asked. <BR>We have not had the personnel sufficient to seek out distribution rights <BR>in a professional manner. Legions of users spamming publishers with <BR>emails saying, "I demand that you give me a free copy of your Bible!" is <BR>amateurish and pointless.</DIV>
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<DIV>The above is what I am trying to get at. It doesn't seem as if any one from Crosswire has been trying to do anything and send off dumb e-mail saying what you pointed out is indead pointless.</DIV>
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<DIV>I realize that as a non-profit it is hard to pay for employees especially ones to do one specific thing. I don't really know exactly what all it is like to work at Crosswire but I must imagine that you do a lot and do more than just one thing. That you all have many jobs to do.</DIV>
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<DIV>--David Abbott<BR><BR><B><I>Chris Little <chrislit@crosswire.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Lynn Allan wrote:<BR>> I speculate that Bible publishers are more inclined to be receptive to<BR>> working with "closed source" venders. I would worry if I were them ...<BR>> whether the large expense to translate, publish, and market was "at<BR>> risk" from "crackable" encryption.<BR><BR>That might be a perception that publishers have, but it would be an <BR>incorrect one.<BR><BR>> How closed is a module if the customized compression is open source in<BR>> a svn available .cpp file? mod2vpl seems to invite "verse mongers"<BR>> ... as near as I can tell.<BR><BR>We don't rely on compression and closed formats to hide data. Other <BR>Bible software does, to the extent of my knowledge, do this. Our data is <BR>actually encrypted. In order to access it you either need the actual <BR>cipher key to unlock it or you need a PhD in CS with an emphasis in <BR>cryptography
in order to discover an exploit in the cryptographic code.<BR><BR>Last I checked, BibleWorks and OLB both allow you to export the contents <BR>of full Bibles. They put that facility right in the UI.<BR><BR>> But I am astonished that Bibles such as the ESV, MSG, AMP, etc are<BR>> available at no charge to closed source "vender(s)". To God be the<BR>> glory ... and I believe those publishers are "storing up" some hearty<BR>> "well done good and faithful servant" comments from our Savior.<BR><BR>Remember: we do not know whether the publishers of most Bibles would be <BR>willing to distribute Bibles in Sword format because we have not asked. <BR>We have not had the personnel sufficient to seek out distribution rights <BR>in a professional manner. Legions of users spamming publishers with <BR>emails saying, "I demand that you give me a free copy of your Bible!" is <BR>amateurish and
pointless.<BR><BR>--Chris<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>sword-devel mailing list<BR>sword-devel@crosswire.org<BR>http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>