The first post, this should be interesting.
When I made this blog I forgot to subtitle that the random ideas included here would be mostly (but by no means limited to) about religion, technology, language and society. Amazingly, this first random idea has something to do with everything this blog is supposed to be about.
A matter of years ago the random idea of memorizing the entire Christian Bible came to me. It seemed amazing until I remembered that yes, almost every single modern translation of the Bible is copyrighted. This had seemed innocent and quite normal before I became involved in the free software movement, but seeing how intellectual property laws could me mangled and misused, the true depth of the situation comes to light. Is the Word of God intellectual property who's ownership belongs to a sole group of humans? A copyrighted Bible belongs in the cathedral, while true Christians belong in the bazaar.
There is a solution for this, to bring the idea of free development to Bible translation. Maybe call it the Open Bible: The Way the Word was Meant to Be.
3 comments:
huh, I never thought about that. I just stick to the good ol' King James Version.
An Open Bible, makes sense.
However, with something like the Bible, having an "open" Bible is not really good. Once you do that the Bible is open to being changed. Of course people will die, as mentioned in Revelations, but it's still open to being corrupted.
When people translate the Bible they are very cautious as to not change things.
Open Source isn't the greatest thing on Earth. Not saying I don't like open source things, but there are certain things it is not supposed to touch.
I'll do the Old Testament if you'll do the New.
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