NVDA, has been developed under a GPL (General Public License) program, ensuring it will forever stay open-sourced. This has to be done from the very first minute, and it does require full transparency of the code, from day one.
The way WinEyes was developed, and sold, will have blocked for it to ever go into the same category of software. It could have been taken open-source, but never under the same program as NVDA, due to its past history. Comparing them, is like asking why you can give away your home-baked cake, whilst the baker has to ask 5 dollars for his product, then claiming he has to give it away for free, just because you manage to do so. On the other hand, NVDA can never turn into a sold-for-money product. Anyone wanting a NVDA for sale, will have to start all over from scratch, developing a money-based code. That is all legal stuff, and too far above the heads of most of us. Smiles. If you have nothing else to do a Sunday afternoon, and really want to be bored for a couple of hours, take your time to read the GPL License document, under which NVDA has been developed. I do hold they have a link to it, right on their homepage. Admittedly, I did open it once, read the first couple of pages, and gave up on the project. There simply is way too many clauses and ifs and thens, you never know even what they are talking about. And a search for some clarification on the net, just lead me into reading pages of lawyer's discussions, arguing back and forth, as to what the contract even means in a courtroom. So enjoy your reading project, should you decide to follow up on the material. Smiles. On 9/10/2017 3:53 AM, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote: > It didn't start out with the same business model as window eyes did. > Pam. > > -----Original Message----- From: Josh Kennedy via Talk > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2017 9:40 PM > To: Window-Eyes Discussion List > Cc: Josh Kennedy > Subject: Re: window-eyes open source? > > then how does NVDA work the way it does? and how is it so successful? > > > > On 9/9/2017 9:37 PM, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote: >> Your board of directors would not allow you to spend a pile of money >> to purchase your competitor and then allow you to put that competitor >> right back in business against you. And no business owner with a drop >> of sense would want to do it anyway. Businesses like Apple, google, >> and Microsoft buy a heap of smaller businesses every year. They don't >> do so to turn around and give them away. FS is no doubt picking >> through the Window-Eyes code looking for ways to improve JAWS or >> features to add. >> >> On 9/9/2017 9:19 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote: >>> if I no longer cared about the product then yes I probably would >>> turn around and just open source it. if the product was no longer >>> supported by my business I'd just tell people do what you want with >>> it, we moved on. take it apart, open source it, whatever. we do not >>> care. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/9/2017 9:14 PM, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote: >>>> No. Think about it. If you were in business and bought your number >>>> one competitor would you turn around and give it away for someone >>>> else to continue its development? >>>> >>>> >>>> On 9/9/2017 9:01 PM, Josh Kennedy via Talk wrote: >>>>> hi >>>>> >>>>> Is there any possibility since window eyes is no longer supported >>>>> to get the window-eyes source code make it open source and put it >>>>> up on the github website? then other developers could keep >>>>> developing window eyes. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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/joshuakennedy201%40comcast.net. >>>> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> sent with mozilla thunderbird >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/joshuakennedy201%40comcast.net. >> 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
