Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules, TMiaHM)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:09 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, N Smethurst wrote: to reflect that it is a general text study tool and not something aimed at the study of religious material. No one claimed the aim of the software was anything but to assist in studying religious material. However, it is not the *only* use of the software. Agree, they ship a 14MB Webster's English Dictionary from that site, for example. Cheers; Leon
Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules, TMiaHM)
Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 03:01, Leon Brooks a écrit : The software is also very useful as a study framework for non-religious material. Try it and see. I would specifically include it for that reason. Fine, this sounds like a good idea. Now all we have to do in order to ensure a non-biased nature is change the name of the software to reflect that it is not specifcally associated with the sword project, remove all references to specific interest groups, and remove all Christian material from the Gnomesword website to reflect that it is a general text study tool and not something aimed at the study of religious material.
Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules,TMiaHM)
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, N Smethurst wrote: Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 03:01, Leon Brooks a écrit : The software is also very useful as a study framework for non-religious material. Try it and see. I would specifically include it for that reason. Fine, this sounds like a good idea. Now all we have to do in order to ensure a non-biased nature is change the name of the software to reflect that it is not specifcally associated with the sword project, It would be a bit difficult to include BibleTime and GnomeSword without the library they depend on ... and the sword library would be required for any text and any frontend. remove all references to specific interest groups, and remove all Christian material from the Gnomesword website Last I checked, the packages did not include the Gnomesword website ;-). to reflect that it is a general text study tool and not something aimed at the study of religious material. No one claimed the aim of the software was anything but to assist in studying religious material. However, it is not the *only* use of the software. One would expect the sword project to mainly provide religious modules, but that does not prevent anyone else from providing additional modules. Both frontends do make more provision for religious modules than anything else, but that is probably partly attributable to the lack of other non-religious modules. But if you have issues with the software, please take it up with the authors. We are only discussing whether or not it should be placed in contrib or not, and I haven't seen any other software excluded due to the content of their web page. I am concerned that the help may be overly religiously inclined though (at least in BibleTime). Regards, Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules, TMiaHM)
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 13:02, N Smethurst wrote: Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 03:01, Leon Brooks a écrit : The software is also very useful as a study framework for non-religious material. Try it and see. I would specifically include it for that reason. Fine, this sounds like a good idea. Now all we have to do in order to ensure a non-biased nature is change the name of the software to reflect that it is not specifcally associated with the sword project, remove all references to specific interest groups, and remove all Christian material from the Gnomesword website to reflect that it is a general text study tool and not something aimed at the study of religious material. Why? This is ridiculous. We don't control Gnomesword's website. The personal beliefs and intended uses of its author(s) are completely irrelevant. It's a useful tool to include in the distribution, with a wide range of uses; include it. Lots of people who write software that we include publically espouse beliefs that are controversial for one reason or another, whether about free software or religion or anything else. It doesn't matter. -- adamw
