Chris Little wrote:
David wrote:
I do not think that Mr. Wolfgang Schultz intended to 'spam' the list. The Zefania schema is limited in many ways, however that is not to say that it does not have a purpose. I believe that there several programs that use the Zefania modules.
He is advertising competing software on a developers' mailing list. He has been asked in the past not to do so. Therefore, it is spam.
This is not a general Bible software discussion list. This is a developers' list. So whatever its purpose or level of adoption, its discussion here is inappropriate.
I completely reject the idea of competing Christian Bible study software (if it is being developed by Christians). - Romans 12:4-5
However, if it is Mr. Schultz's intentions to compete that is of course inappropriate.
Regardless of that, I do not see a better free source of lexicons for both greek, and hebrew. And I am not sure what data would be lost from the originals.Regardless of the rejection of those modules Mr. Schultz was kind enough to offer notify people on this list that they are available (that is to offer them to Sword). There are some that Sword does not have.
I do not think that anything will be anything lost in the conversion of the lexicons from Zefania to OSIS.
You misunderstand. Nothing will be lost in the conversion from Zefania to OSIS because OSIS is a robust and capable encoding standard. Data is already lost in the conversion to Zefania, and that data can never be retrieved without going back to the source documents.
Mr. Schultz, if you are reading this are those lexicons considered to be in the public domain?
I can not read German, but I will take your work on that. To that I would say set the example, show them a better way. Perhaps they will respond accordingly.There should be cooperation, respect between all software engineers that are working to publish the Gospel. We are all united in purpose, aren't we?
A spirit of competition, or 'you do not work for us so you are not welcome' has no place in it. You are not working for Sword, you are working for God.
Indeed. Unfortunately, there has not been a spirit of cooperation or respect from those involved with Zefania. You can check the sword-devel archives for some of the past behavior of Zefania representatives. If you read German, you can check the MyBible forums for some additional evidence that they are not exactly interested in cooperation. And beyond that, you'll just have to take my word that there have been private correspondences that bolster this position.
CrossWire has a number of relationships with software providers who do not use Sword but to whom we have provided texts or support in various other forms. Maybe you don't realize that because we don't tend to go out of our way to brag about it, but the suggestion that we do not cooperate with other vendors is quite off-base.I did not suggest that there is no cooperation with other organizations. I am aware of some (probably not all) instances of cooperation with other organizations.
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