RE: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:44:33 -0400
Actually that's GPL version 3, not jaws version three, and like I said in
another thread, *grin*, happy April fools.
Take care,
Sina
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
Guys, I sure hate to burst any1's bubble, but we're talking jaws *3* here!
It won't even *begin* to support xp, much less vista. The only thing it
might be useful for is figuring out some of what they do,although even that
is likely to be terribly antiquated. So I'm not altogether certain this is
worth getting particularly excited about.
Maybe if folks are operating under win 3.1, or perhaps 95, it's great.
Otherwise.... Like I said, perhaps it could be used as a springboard for
developing other products, though I suspect what's there, as I said, is
pretty much no longer applicable.
On 4/1/08, Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wait a minute. You are saying that jaws, formerly hundreds of
> dollars, is now free? Wow!
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Amadan Aibreann" <amadan.aibreann@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:09:23 +0100
> >Subject: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
>
> >Hello,
>
> >I was delighted on visiting the Freedom Scientific website to
> find the
> >announcement that FS has released their flagship product "JAWS
> for Windows"
> >under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
> >I think this is a great step forward for Freedom Scientific and I
> would like
> >to be the first to welcome them to the 21st century.
> >This brave step of releasing JAWS as free software will
> revolutionize the
> >state of the assistive technology industry.
>
> >I downloaded the source tarball so that I could get hacking on it
> straight
> >away!
> >Some of the code is quite crufty in places but I'm sure it will
> get tidied
> >up fairly quickly now that there are many eyes (figuratively
> speaking) on
> >the code.
> >I did notice something very unusual however:
> >Some of the code is written in COBOL!
> >I can only speculate that this is due to FS employing some blind
> developers
> >after they were made redundant after all the Y2K work dried up.
>
> >Best regards
>
> >Amadan Aibreann
>
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