You don't evenhave that restriction with WIndow-Eyes, atleast according to
the staff I've spokenn with at GW. I also like the fact that you don't
necessarily have! to close WE to run audio games. There've been occasions
when I forgot to close WE before loading, sa ALien Outback or pipe, only to
discover the truth after I closed the game, all because WE doesn't often
interfere with te game's operation the way the Shark does. The problemI can
see wit using NVDA onte job would be because it may not work wit whatever
software the business uses.
But thou must!
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More on hardware keys was: Re: An Announcement
Regarding BSC Games
Hi Shaun,
Oh, I wouldn't go that far to say we wouldn't need open source and
NVDA wouldn't exist if the cost of Jaws, Window-Eyes, etc were less
expensive because there are different goals being supplied by each
model of software distribution. With Jaws and Window-Eyes even if they
were $200 instead of $1000 there would still be commercial
restrictions on the software such as you can only install it on no
more than three PCs which some people like myself would find too
restrictive. NVDA is not only free in terms of money, but there is no
restriction on how many PCs it can be installed on at one time which
is obviously better for someone like myself who currently has five
computers in his household shared among my wife, son, and I. Since I
want to walk up to any of them press a command and have instant speech
something like Jaws is just too restrictive and doesn't give me enough
licenses for my needs and I would have to pay for more licenses which
I don't have to do since NVDA supplies my needs.
As for open source in general I think the same argument can be made.
While my son's laptop and my newer laptop came with Windows 7 my old
desktop was running Windows Vista and my old laptop was running Vista
as well. Rather than upgrade them to Windows 7 I chose to put Ubuntu
Linux on them and that has saved us money since we don't need five
separate licenses for Windows 7. Ubuntu 12.04 is quite accessible with
Orca and since I am not paying for Firefox, LibreOffice, and a
majority of the other software I am using on Linux it is a very
affordable and economic option for someone with a very tight budget.
While it is true if commercial software wasn't overly expensive I
would certainly be more willing to pay for it, but cost is actually
half the story here. There are things a person can do with open source
that can't be done with commercial software if a person is inclined to
do so. One of them is to take the source code for a program, modify
it, and relese the changes back into the community.
For example, on Linux there is a free game called Vectoroids. Its open
source, and is a decent clone of the Asteroids game for Atari. If I
wanted to I could grab the source code for the game, update it, add
TTS support and other accessibility features and release my changes to
the game back to the open source community just like that. No special
licensing, no arguing over who did what, no fighting with big
companies over adding accessibility, etc because the GPL is all about
mutual cooperation between developers.
Accessibility is an area where we have a foot in the door with open
source because no one can deny us the right to modify the code if it
is under the GPL or LGPL. If a corporation like Nintendo, Sony, EA
Games, releases a game under a commercial license if you ask them to
add access they can tell you to stick your suggestion where the sun
doesn't shine. GPL software is much more user friendly. If you want to
add access to an open source game like Flight Gear, Freeciv, Lin City,
etc you are welcome to do it yourself. No one is going to complain
provided the original author gets credit for writing his portion of
the game and you release your modifications as open source. So I would
argue that there is sometimes a need for open source.
Cheers!
On 4/25/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
well in a way much that its a pain that all the agencys want you to
use expensive jaws and everyone that uses the agency wants jaws for
everyone because its what you use in a job, if we didn't have overly
expensive software ever we wouldn't need opensource and nvda would not
exist.
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