Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific

  • From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:10:30 -0400

LOL
That sounds like a variation of the one about Microsoft releasing windows 
source so that the free software developers could work out all the bugs. 
The article was written so convincingly that it almost had me fooled, until 
I reached the end and looked up at the date.
Cheers.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amadan Aibreann" <amadan.aibreann@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:09 PM
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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