Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just submitted a feedback on the e-Sword website. I encouraged Rick to consider making the software available under an open source license and even offered my help to port the software. Hopefully this will pan out, as I also have been looking for

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-17 Thread bmetcalf
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Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just submitted a feedback on the e-Sword website. I encouraged Rick to consider making the software available under an open source license and even offered my help to port the software. Hopefully this will pan out, as I also

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread kurtz
El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:34:36, Roberto Sanchez escribe: Then on his list of top 10 tips for developers he seems to think that the only reason to write software is to sell it and make money. No concept of Free software. Let us not forget, of course, that it is perfectly

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
kurtz wrote: El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:34:36, Roberto Sanchez escribe: Then on his list of top 10 tips for developers he seems to think that the only reason to write software is to sell it and make money. No concept of Free software. Let us not forget, of course, that it is

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread kurtz
El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:54:12, Roberto Sanchez escribe: I should have made that clear. You were clear enough, was only trolling. :)) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:02:39AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: http://www.anova.org/software/ This is just bizarre. Zaine Ridling, Ph.D. is listed as the editor in the PDF file. This same twit who put together this list of his favorite Closed Source applications and

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-16 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Check: bibletime, gnomesword, sword-comm-mhcc, sword-comm-pers, sword-dict-naves, sword-text-web, bible-kjv You can also try running e-Sword in WINE. -Roberto Sanchez Thanks to all who replied. Unfortunately I've looked at the

e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
that is there a way I can run e-Sword under Linux? I'm getting really tired of having to boot into Windows just for it, but it's the best study software I've found. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:48:20PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Just out of curiousity, when was it published? I was under the impression that most accepted serious biblical commentaries were written long ago enough that they had passed into the public domain. In the 1950s. I don't know

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
, and flexibility of e-Sword? Or failing that is there a way I can run e-Sword under Linux? I'm getting really tired of having to boot into Windows just for it, but it's the best study software I've found. Check: bibletime, gnomesword, sword-comm-mhcc, sword-comm-pers, sword-dict-naves, sword-text

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:36PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: The one program I have found so far that I can't find anything even close to in a Debian package is e-Sword, a Bible study package packaged only for Windows. All the Sword Data is released under GPL:

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: Again, this is not all the scholarly Bible Research there is -- this is All the Public Domain scholarly Bible Reserach there is. Yeah, the more I look at this, the more I realize that both are presenting the same public domain

OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:32:33AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: http://www.anova.org/sev/ (The Koran will be up there in a while -- too) I don't know what to make of the link at the bottom of the page: http://www.anova.org/software/ which goes on to talk about Windows Software and then links

yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:02:39AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: http://www.anova.org/software/ This is just bizarre. Zaine Ridling, Ph.D. is listed as the editor in the PDF file. This same twit who put together this list of his favorite Closed Source applications and linked to the porn

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Siju George
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:07:43 -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just submitted a feedback on the e-Sword website. I encouraged Rick to consider making the software available under an open source license and even offered my help to port the software. Hopefully this will pan

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
Aparenty Zaine is Kibo or something. All his screenshots are of porn. The mystery evolves: The Revised Standard Version is not distributed with any Linux software, or Windows Freeware, but the Oxford text is available from Oxford at: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/textinfo/1061.html and in another form

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
? Or failing that is there a way I can run e-Sword under Linux? I'm getting really tired of having to boot into Windows just for it, but it's the best study software I've found. Check: bibletime, gnomesword, sword-comm-mhcc, sword-comm-pers, sword-dict-naves, sword-text-web, bible-kjv You can

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: What I'd like is the Oxford Press Version of the Revised Standard Edition, which is a copyrighted work but the preferred text for scholars. Just out of curiousity, when was it published? I was under the impression that most accepted serious biblical commentaries were

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
close to the power, features, and | flexibility of e-Sword? Or failing that is there a way I can run | e-Sword under Linux? I'm getting really tired of having to boot into | Windows just for it, but it's the best study software I've found. I am not familiar with e-Sword, but there is gnomesword

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:19:31PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have almost completely gone away from Windows for my desktop OS. The one program I have found so far that I can't find anything even close to in a Debian package is e-Sword, a Bible study package packaged only for

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Check: bibletime, gnomesword, sword-comm-mhcc, sword-comm-pers, sword-dict-naves, sword-text-web, bible-kjv You can also try running e-Sword in WINE. -Roberto Sanchez Thanks to all who replied. Unfortunately I've looked at the programs available in

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:36PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'll have to start experimenting with Wine and see if I can get e-Sword to work under it. According to the WINE application database, it works partially, but you need a Windows box to actually install it.

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:14:29AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: Again, this is not all the scholarly Bible Research there is -- this is All the Public Domain scholarly Bible Reserach there is. Hoorah! The Oxford Text of the