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 ScientificGuys, 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. Theonlything it might be useful for is figuring out some of what they do,although even that is likely to be terribly antiquated. SoI'm notaltogether certain this is worth getting particularly excitedabout.Maybe if folks are operating under win 3.1, or perhaps 95, it'sgreat.Otherwise.... Like I said, perhaps it could be used as aspringboardfor developing other products, though I suspect what's there, asIsaid, is pretty much no longer applicable.On 4/1/08, Alex Hall 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 ScientificHello,I was delighted on visiting the Freedom Scientific website tofind theannouncement that FS has released their flagship product "JAWSfor Windows"under the GNU General Public License, version 3. I think this is a great step forward for Freedom Scientific and Iwould liketo be the first to welcome them to the 21st century. This brave step of releasing JAWS as free software willrevolutionize thestate of the assistive technology industry.I downloaded the source tarball so that I could get hacking on itstraightaway! Some of the code is quite crufty in places but I'm sure it willget tidiedup fairly quickly now that there are many eyes (figurativelyspeaking) onthe 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 blinddevelopersafter they were made redundant after all the Y2K work dried up.Best regardsAmadan 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-- Jackie McBride Please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489& Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net __________ 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
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