Re: [sword-devel] NIV electronic licencing

2002-07-09 Thread Chris Bitmead
I was talking about "scarcity" in the economic sense of the world. For the application of economics, anything that is not truly infinite is scarce. Either way though, the very nature of ideas is that they can be copied infinitely without the permission of the original author. That is not the

Re: [sword-devel] NIV electronic licencing

2002-07-09 Thread Chris Bitmead
Daniel Freedman wrote: >Look, I have very little money, and quite frankly, it cost me little more >than $1.5 each to get a copy of the NIV and Good News Bible. > Hey, $1.50 isn't much at all is it? Maybe I'll start charging $1.50 to get into our church every week.

Re: [sword-devel] NIV electronic licencing

2002-07-09 Thread 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 s

Re: [sword-devel] NIV electronic licencing

2002-07-09 Thread Chris Bitmead
I agree 100%, but I'm not sure what version would be the replacement. The NIV and NASB are very good, the KJV is pretty poor by today's standards. Greg Marine wrote: >Just my two cents on licensing... > >I'm so frustrated by the fact that "God's Word" is licensed at all. I understand that >mo

Re: [sword-devel] I now replace '\n'->'\r' in modules

2002-06-23 Thread Chris Bitmead
Also the standard for XML happens to be a '\n' only. (I always thought the \r\n thing was stupid). Victor Porton wrote: >That solution was wrong. My final solution is substituting "\n \n" for >empty lines. Release expected shortly. > > > >>I had thought that mac newlines were '\r' not '\n

Re: [sword-devel] Lawyer Help: Redistribution

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Bitmead
It's possible to get some electronic credit card hookup to a bank. It could then in theory be completely automated. You put in your card # and receive a key. Every 6 months you mail a cheque to the appropriate parties. David Trotz wrote: >I think the big problem is... who is going to take the

Re: [sword-devel] Lawyer Help: Redistribution

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Bitmead
What is NAS? Is that NASB? Joshua Holman wrote: >A few months ago, I read a survey of Pastors that concluded that the KJV, >NIV, NKJV, NAS, and the NRSV were the most popular. To be a player, we >should have at least 3 of the five. The other locked English Versions should >fall by the wayside.

Re: [sword-devel] Sword Searching

2002-04-25 Thread Chris Bitmead
Chris Little wrote: >> >>>We could use this as a good excuse to start teaching the commoners about >>>regular expressions. Anyone feel like finding/writing a regex tutorial >>>for the FAQ? >>> >>>--Chris >>> >>>On Wednesday, April

Re: [sword-devel] Sword Searching

2002-04-24 Thread Chris Bitmead
Call me a "fool" but I think this is too geeky for your typical bible reader. And the ability to search for a word is, well, pretty fundamental don't you think? Jacob Daniel wrote: >I believe that \bfool\b with Regular Expression search should work. > >On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:19:07PM +0200,

[sword-devel] Sword Searching

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Bitmead
I wish you could do plain word searches in Sword. I.e. I wish I could search for "fool" without getting all references to "foolish" for example.