The greatest Bible concordance software option Bibleworks has announced they're closing after 10 editions. The lead developer is turning 70, and in his forum post he explains that moving to open source isn't a viable option since the software depends on licensed material. Licensed material he's referring to: >Bible translations in all languages >Commentaries >Atlases >Dictionaries
Is there an example of open source software allowing for paid extensions to include licensed matieral, or are the two antithetical?
If this software were to be saved by migrating to an open source option? How would you do it?
The other proprietary options are several thousand dollar unintuative DRM and subscription based garbage
He says in the post that the youngest developer is 49
Ryan Wright
Christianity = open source Judaism = closed source
Luke Phillips
Why not move to open source what you can, try to get licenced material to contribute as well. If it doesn't, let the project go into capable hands and built the new material as open source. It will take time, but will be worth it. Hell, it's Bible software, they can probably also raise some easy money for the project.
Robert Fisher
>try to spread the word of god >the religious texts your software depends on are aggressively copyrighted and coveted by greedy humans
Funny how that works out.
FYI the original reason copyright was established was so the church could stop people from printing sacrilegious texts and force them to only print propaganda.
Joseph Carter
In theory you can open source the software stripped of licensed material and make license material "pluggable". This could let another company license the material and "plug it in" in the same way a document reader can read any .txt file. But it depends on how well they compartmentalized the data from the logic. Also depends on if the licensor will agree to license their stuff to a company using foss
Parker Thompson
What reasons would keep a license holder from agreeing to sell on a foss platform?
Easton Long
This is unacceptable. They can offer the licensed material IN A SEPARATE DOWNLOAD.
Tell the developer to do the right thing.
Camden King
to elaborate, the tools are linked by verse and word where you can select a section in your bible translation and it will display the relevant information in another panel as a greek dictionary, commentary or whatever else
Christian Evans
How can you extend this to a full compelling argument?
Aiden Barnes
Open source everything and direct all complaints to [email protected]
Jason Perez
God is giving them an opportunity to pass the torch, open source is that torch. All the licensed material can carry on too by including it as a separate download in the next releases but you can secure your own effort won't be for nothing by making the torch itself open to improvement.
Don't leave the world in darkness.
Angel Jackson
>The greatest Bible concordance software Whatever, can't they just demo it with a pagan or satanic bible or whatever?
Matthew Barnes
Or maybe it's time to stop supporting 2000 year old Schizophrenic stories and grow up from your imaginary friends.
Jonathan White
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Grayson Green
Idk security. Companies have funny policies
Justin Johnson
i agree my fellow reddittor
Jace Bailey
Obsessed
Jeremiah Wood
this
Nolan Nelson
the only thing missing in this great post is repeating digits
Aaron Green
They should be using the King James Version. Zero corruption, and zero license fees.
Theres no reason why you cant separate the logic from the text here but it really depends on how the software is already architected. You can always ask them to try and separate it
Christian Ward
>Bible can be copyrighted Why do people put up with stupid shit like this?
If the program is impossible to use without the licensed material then open source doesn't really make sense.... unless
Tyler Price
To fund new translations
Samuel Fisher
>FYI the original reason copyright was established was so the church could stop people from printing sacrilegious texts and force them to only print propaganda. wait, I'm finally learning something form Jow Forums (although not too related to tech). though it'd be cool if you posted your source
Henry Bailey
Anderson affirms studying Greek, which is the goal of the program
Jack Turner
Usually angry tards like you turn out to be "former" Catholics. I say former because they usually still believe but they're simply angry at God because their lives turned out to be shit and not as fulfilling as you thought it would be
