Orlando, I have to admit, you make this seem like a no-brainer. However, there are many issues at play that I don't believe you understand. For example, we currently license the Duxbury braille translator, we can't simply give that away. We license several synthesizers, again, we can't give them away. We have special coding to give us access to encrypted PDF documents. There is no way we can simply give that coding away as we have an agreement with Adobe. We also offer the ability to encrypt our Window-Eyes apps. Would it be fair to release the unlocking code for that and allow anyone to see the code of an encrypted script. These are the first to pop off my head, there are many other examples of this where we can't just plop the code on the counter and let whoever have at it. I'm just pointing out things aren't always as easy as you are portraying.
Regards, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Orlando Enrique Fiol via Talk Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:44 PM To: Loy <[email protected]>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: migrating situation 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 _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/dgeoffray%40vfogroup.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
