Re: Wonderful news from Freedom Scientific
- From: "Punit Diwan" <punitdiwan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:26:04 -0500
Hi,
What did you say, JAWS is now free? It seems that some thing is wrong
with my computer speakers. I cannot believe that FS is offering JAWS free
of cost under GPL License. If some one say that tomorrow the sun will rise
from west, I may trust him but for availability of JAWS under GPL is
undeliverable. Please send the link of the notification which says that JAWS
will be free. I still can't believe this.
Beware
Hay guys, he is trying to make us fool on Fools day (1st April) Beware.
Regards
Punit Diwan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amadan Aibreann" <amadan.aibreann@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:09 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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