[sword-devel] An apology ......

[Barry Drake]

Dear Dr. Hermanson ......

May I apologise on behalf of the Sword Project for a message sent you by 
Johan Kok.  His attitude does not reflect the policy of the Sword Project 
and should be disregarded.  Please accept my personal apology for any 
offense caused.  I have written to him as follows:

On 6 May 2003 at 9:00, Johan Kok wrote:
> GOD gave his word for free. No man or organisation has the right to keep it
> from His people with copyright laws, thus you are defeating the object of
> your society by blocking the free distribution of His word. 

I'm sorry but this kind of comment - whatever we may think privately - is 
NOT helpful to the Sword programme.  It has the opposite effect to opening 
doors, and means that when we later make approaches to copyright holders 
who have been bombarded with this kind of thing, we are not listened to at 
all.  Please, please keep this kind of thinking to yourselves or if you 
must, to the list!

God bless,
Barry

-- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed 
church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for our church 
homepages).

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