Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific

  • From: "littlefield, tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:07:09 -0600

I wanna see the people that scoured the site for hours, looking for the source download. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>

To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific


Where is this announcement? I was not able to find it on the site, if it exists.

Have a great day,
Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:24:44 -0700
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said, is pretty much no longer applicable.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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