Well-said, and enough of the drama and apparent simplicity of some.
Time to move on, even if we're not necessarily happy about it.--Matthew Chao
On 5/17/2017 8:36 AM, Doug Geoffray via Talk wrote:
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
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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
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