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Re: Open letter to Debian community



"Victor Vislobokov" wrote:
  >   And everything takes space! And games! Do many people play XBill?
  >And tell me please, why docs about anarchism were included in doc section?
  >And Bible? Religious people have printed variants and non-religious won't
  >read it from computer.

The reason for making a computer program of the bible, is to be able to
do searching and quick cross-referencing.  I use it on a laptop, which I
have to carry anyway; then I don't need to carry a book as well.  Someone
may want to pipe it to a speech synthesis program.  There are many uses
for text on computer rather than on paper.

A long time ago, a data section of the archive was proposed, to hold
things like texts.  Nothing ever came of it.

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