New Linux PDA For Blind People

Travis Siegel tsiegel at softcon.com
Thu Mar 30 13:55:42 EST 2006


Already tried that.
The problem is that if only 1 goes opensource, then the others will  
steal code from it, not give credit, and pretty much blow away the  
open source option.  Unless *all* of them go opensource  
simultaneously, nothing will change.
On Mar 30, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:

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> Well, Steve, I have to in that case retract the JFW thing.  But the  
> fact
> is that either Microsoft absolutely must make a superior screen reader
> to JFW and Window Eyes both and ship it with every Windows  
> installation
> to keep the prices down, or the screen reader developers absolutely
> must move to an entirely open source model.  Don't you wish you had  
> the
> source code for JFW?  And how about Window Eyes too?  Then it would be
> possible to incorporate the best features of both into a single  
> free and
> open source screen reader that is far superior to either one of the
> original programs.
>
> Lorenzo
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