At 05:11 PM 5/16/2017, Loy via Talk wrote:
>There is nothing free, someone has to pay for it. You can't expect
a company like GWMicro to provide WE to blind people. free. However a
company like Microsoft could develope a screen reader where all blind
people could have access, the cost could be spread acros millions of
Windows user and cost would minial.
Window-eyes' code is obviously already written. It is working
impeccably on both my Windows 10 systems and I plan to rely on it for
as long as possible. Its scripting capabilities are much more robust
than any other screen reader; plus, sighted programmers used to
VBScript, JSCript, Python, Pearl, C++ and a host of other COM
automation languages could write Window-eyes scripts. But with the
code locked up, Window-eyes will not be able to keep up with hardware
and software hangers in Windows .
International copyright law is useful here. Works are copyrighted in
order to be distributed freely or sold for profit; the copyright
makes sure that royalties go to the copyright holder. But when
copyrights lapse and works are put in the public domain, they can be
freely distributed and altered.
In Window-eyes' case, since the product is more than currently
viable, it can obviously still be used. But when it requires updates,
release of the code would make that possible at no loss or
inconvenience to Gwmicro's founders.
Orlando Enrique Fiol
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