On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Jónatas Ferreira<jonatasferre...@mac.com> wrote: > > Em 2009/07/27, às 13:59, sword-devel-requ...@crosswire.org escreveu: > >> It doesn't seem all that impossible. At those prices, mental math says >> the breakeven is 500 copies. You just need the $10000 up front. >> >> If ten CrossWire people kicked in $1000 each (or twenty people @ $500 >> each), and if (a big if?) there was a reasonable expectation of selling >> 500 NIV modules within a year or two, it would be doable. Are there 500 >> CrossWire users interested in the NIV at this price? Doing something >> like that would change the "feel" of what CrossWire is, somewhat, so the >> group would have to decide if this sort of venture is something it >> *wants* to do. But to me, it sounds fairly feasible, *if* the group >> chooses to make it a serious goal. >> >> Jonathan > > The problem with charging for a module for Sword is that, generally, when > people think about open-source they think "free" and they don't want to pay > for anything. One example that proves my point is that, whenever someone > tries to sell Sword copies, people come here and ask if it is legal to sell > copies of Sword.
And e-Sword costs how much? I know what you mean, but it is more legal to sell Sword frontends than it is to sell e-Sword. While many people do see e-Sword as free and don't want to pay for anything with it, obviously others are buying the NIV, NKJV, Message, etc. to make it worth selling it. I don't know whether it would be the same with Sword, but I imagine so. Jon _______________________________________________ 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
