Hi,
I think Shaun is correct. Just giving up, doing what we must to get buy,
and leaving there is not enough.
When in accessible gaming we have as much right to play Trek games, Star
wars, Toomb Raider, Harry Potter, etc as the sighted folks except for
strictly worded terms of use and license agreements which prohibbit the
development and sale of such products.
At some point the blind game comunity needs to make it's needs and
desires known to the companies who control those copyrights. Let those
companies know they want equal products made for them. If not by them or
those they have licensed to do so, and then the permission of others to
do so.
Other games like Asteroids you can get by with cloning like call it
Mediors or Mederoids, add new effects, and you have successfully dodged
copyright infringement, but Star Trek, Harry Potter, etc is not as easy.
shaun everiss wrote:
> The thing is that that's not solving the issue.
> At some point we have to expand which eventually means crossing the
> border betwene our own works and dealing with others copyrights.
> I much prefur we keep trying now rather than just going hohum over it.
> I really want more trek games and starwars games.
> The sighted have those and to not have those would mean we are behind
> yet again.
> I recomend we keep at it.
> If nothing else we will learn enough to continue.
> An example.
> Although this is not really for games the prinsipal still applies here.
> I was enroling in my last paper at uni.
> It required linux, and several other things.
> I spent 7 weeks, half the sumester working on access tech for linux.
> Getting the right synth and computer and cd distros.
> In the end the synth failed and the course was vary hard to do but for
> 7 weeks I learnt more than the entire course put together.
> I wander what would have happened if I said, right, its not working, I
> think I will drop the course and then kill myself.
> True I didn't think of the latter thing but I did concider actually
> dropping the entire course and tech as a whole.
> In the end I kept the course but after that visual stuff made me drop
> tech anyway.
> The point is we need to keep at it.
> Dropping it would be an insult.
> We want to go forward yet we decide to just drop it.
> Obviously if we must then we must.
> However we will for ever be limited to our own little world.
> For those who like to thats fine, but I have had a taste of adventure.
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