Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:11:29 -0400
Please look at the date, people! Do the list members outside the USA know
that April 1 is a day of practical jokes?
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
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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