<div>The setup executables in some paid for Windows software downloads are individualised to the customer's name. </div><div><br></div><div>EditPad Pro is one such example. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm surprised the method isn't more widespread. </div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block">Sent from ProtonMail Mobile</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 16:03, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com" class="">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:08 AM Tobias Klein <<a href="mailto:contact@tklein.info">contact@tklein.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Greg,</p>
<p>Thanks for expressing your interest in this and sharing the
vision! :)</p>
<p>POC = Proof of Concept?<br>
I'll come back to you personally.</p></div></blockquote><div>Yes, a proof of concept implementation that allowed each user to click through to "purchase" a given module. A new locked version would be generated at that time with a unique key for the individual and offered to them for download. I'm a developer, though, not a web designer or UX type of person. So the look and experience was rough. I just wanted to prove to myself and others that it could be done. It was a minimal amount of work to do that from a technical standpoint.</div><div><br></div><div>--Greg<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p>Best regards,<br>
Tobias<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_1539388386060405151moz-cite-prefix">On 12.03.19 23:44, Greg Hellings wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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I'm following up on the last thread that I started. Who
would be interested in actively supporting the following
idea:<br>
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- Develop/set up an online platform that sells non-free
Bible translations as locked Sword modules<br>
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<div>This is, technically, trivial. I've created at least two
functional POCs in the past that would create a customized
download with a uniquely locked key for every "purchaser"
(the POC part came in that it didn't actually transact
money).</div>
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- Establish a non-profit that becomes a Library Card Holder
@ The Digital Bible Library (DBL)<br>
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<div>Sounds like a lot of paperwork.</div>
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- Negotiate with Bible Societies to actually get licenses
for distributing specific non-free Bible translations<br>
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<div>Sounds like even more paperwork.</div>
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- Develop a software that uses the DBL's REST API for
automatically creating locked Sword modules<br>
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<div>If the DBL's REST API is reasonable and well-behaved,
this would be a very simple task as well. The programmatic
creation of SWORD modules from pre-parsed text is very
simple and straightforward (the biggest complexities in our
module creation process comes from the rigid nature of how
we store scriptures on disk vs the great freedoms we offer
to module creators in the XML we accept and in the parsing
of the XML).</div>
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Anyone interested? We would need:<br>
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<div>I am keenly interested. I believe that lack of modern
English translations is a huge detriment to the SWORD
ecosystem. It's one of the main reasons I don't use any of
our apps on a regular basis. The only thing that has stopped
me, in the past, has been the social back pressure from
other members of the CrossWire community who, for reasons
still opaque to me, oppose the existence of a separate
entity that is not affiliated with CrossWire that
distributes for-pay SWORD modules.</div>
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<div>Since I have print copies of all the modern English
translations I want, I have no true pressing need for such
to exist, as much as I really wish it did. Thus, rather than
fly in the face of others in the community to scratch my own
personal itch, I have opted against such and continue to
solely use dead tree editions for reading and studying and
limit my digital interactions to search.</div>
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<div>I foresee that you'll also find that many of our core,
active members are still of the opinion that such an entity
would be a negative thing. As I mentioned, I do not
comprehend their objections but have not made a strong
effort to really find out why their objection exists. It
would, for me, be nothing more than a pet project more
answering the question of, "Is it possible, technically",
and that answer has already been given by my POCs for me.<br>
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