[CS-FSLUG] Could you switch to 100% open source?

[Karl Kleinpaste]

sjm <steve at themccrackens.org> writes:
> (anybody know of a good way to convert the bibles from e-sword to
> sword?).

You don't want to do that.  Not really.
http://karl.kleinpaste.org/rick.meyers/

Less than 3 months after that conversation, Rick released v9, making v8
the shortest-lived major version (~6 months) in e-sword's history.  The
issue of 3 point releases (to 9.0.3) in less than 4 weeks is as clear an
indication of rushed-to-release as one could ask.  v9 replaces the old
Jet/Access method in e-sword with SQLite.

v9 module content is now actually encrypted, instead of bogusly claimed
to be "protected."  (It never was, in Jet/Access databases.  Protection
was at the point of purchase, with an unlock code for the *.exe module
installers, and only there.  I have been told that, even there, the
*.exe installers could be readily cracked, though I was never told how.)
v9 does not read the old *.bbl &c at all; you will have to re-download
and re-install all e-sword-provided modules -- purchased/locked modules
are retrievable using your previous login + unlock code info -- and run
a supplied converter against any personally-produced modules, to create
e.g. *.bblx.  This replace-update-and-convert imposition has caused
rather a lot of, um, consternation on e-sword mailing lists.

Others have written prototype code for the Sword library so as to
incorporate v8-and-previous *.bbl directly into any Sword application.
It is nowhere near ready for prime time, and now probably never will be,
considering that v8-and-previous modules are an evolutionary tidepool.