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<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>IMHO
sending professionally written letters could be a good idea /even if they are
being sent several times a day by many amateurs/. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A
short guide "how to apply for copyrights" and some examples of very polite
letters (maybe kind requests to allow to make source text a freely distributable
e-module for free Bible programs? as this is the most optimistic scenario?)
somewhere in the web could be of great value. Some kind of information
concerning who, where and when applied would be OK, of course.
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<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
personally don't believe that it could be possible to handle all things
concerning copyrights at all over the world by one company or society, without
help of local volunteers (e.g. from Poland, Russia, Iraq, Vietnam
etc.;)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Besides, saying "no, thanks" to voluneers would be an attitude that makes
project more close and less open;) </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>(and
what sucks more than open projects?...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Of
course, this is my absolutely private opinion.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=310421210-17022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Wojciech Bartminski</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=310421210-17022005> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
sword-devel-bounces@crosswire.org [mailto:sword-devel-bounces@crosswire.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>The Abbott Family<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 17,
2005 6:06 AM<BR><B>To:</B> SWORD Developers' Collaboration
Forum<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sword-devel] Does "Open Source" scare off
publishers? [Was: Onething That I would like to
see...]<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>--David Abbott<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>