Your giving it more credit then it deserves. It doesn't cut into jaws as much as you claim.
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+dennisl1982=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of 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/joshuakennedy2 01%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/joshuakennedy2 01%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/dennisl1982%40 gmail.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
