Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > If BibleCS and BibleDesktop disappeared people could just start > using other programs, like e-sword.
People might not even notice that they had disappeared from Windows. There are a plethora of free (gratis) Bible Study programs, and almost as many commercially distributed programs. > But for Linux BibleTime, GnomeSword (and BibleDesktop) are the only > options - at least I don't know any other. If there are any others, they haven't made it into any of the Linux distributions. [With three Linux distributions orientated towards Christians,I'd expect any others to be in at least one of them.] > This becomes even more important if Linux user base grows in the third world. Imagine your preacher having a KJV that did not contain a concordance, cross references, or any textual apparatus. Change the translation, and you are describing the standard Bible for minority languages everywhere. > but only if we are thinking about our user base in Western countries. +1 How many people realize that the study tools included in GnomeSword are more comprehensive than the tools that Bible College graduates in some third world countries own? ######### The other issues are: * What will happen to the programs for the various PDA platforms? * What are the odds of a vendor hijacking a PDA version into a commercial program? ######## Does anybody have a list of Bible Study Software that is distributed under the GNU GPL, or other Open Source Licence? xan jonathon _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
