Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:09:07 +0300

It is a date for jokes in many other parts of the world. I have read this message only in april 2nd, but I knew that it should be a joke. We will see an open source of Windows before an open source of JAWS for sure. 


Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific



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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