Friday, February 20, 2004
Read this, -and have a nice weekend....
The Silver Mountain Software company will probably be known to many who use to work with the TLG texts on a PC. Another program from this firm was the Bible Windows. Due to Microsoft's concern about the name of that program Silver Mountain had to change it: it is now called Bibloi 8.0. What happened to Bible Windows? They say:After 10 years of Bible Windows without any confusion, we received a letter from the Seed "Intellectual Property Law Group" (www.seedlaw.com) which stated, "Microsoft is concerned that your use of the name Bible Windows for your software product could confuse customers. Consumers seeing your product name may think that your product is manufactured by, sponsored by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation. As a trademark owner, Microsoft much [sic] watch for and take steps to remedy potentially confusing and dilution uses of its trademark." Although we deny that there has been any confusion of this sort, or any dilution of Microsoft's trademark name, we have no ability to challenge Microsoft. So, although we have been a loyal Microsoft customer for many years, we were forced to change our product name. Hence, no more Bible Windows, but Biblio. The version number is obviously taken over from BW as they call it Biblio 8.0. This version also have some improvements, and there is in particular one that I find interesting:The major new feature is the ability to add texts to the program. Bibloi includes a C# program that reads texts into an MS Access database that can then be used in Bibloi. The source code for this program will be available on request to registered users. So, while there are a number of formats supported, users could extend the import program to include other formats. The import program and Bibloi are Unicode compatible so that a wide variety of translations and texts can be imported. This obviously means that the users can import and add texts to the program. They mention that "The BibloiImport program can import texts from the Unbound Bible Project (http://undev.biola.edu). " This would certainly be interesting for those of us who work with other texts than the Bible texts, for instance the texts of Philo and Josephus. I hope Rubén Gómez or other reviewers will come up with a review of this program soon.
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