Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
- From: "James Scholes" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:47:29 +0100
That's what I thought, can't be true can it...
Alex Hall 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
||
||| __________
||| View the list's information and change your settings at
||| //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
||
||
|| __________
|| View the list's information and change your settings at
|| //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
||
||
|| __________ NOD32 2993 (20080401) Information __________
||
|| This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
|| http://www.eset.com
__________
View the list's information and change your settings at
//www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
Other related posts:
