it's all about economics. these companys like gw micro and fredom scientific have to charge a lot of money to pay their bills. realize they pay tech support people, sales people, programmers, as well as everyone else who works there. they have to pay for a ton of other things, so it's no surprise the software is expensive. is it fair? no. but, it's the way it is. and the blind computer market is a nich market, and piracy does hurt. not to stray too far off topic or anything, but I still think it's wrong that people host these sites where others have public access to illegal software. and maybe I have a biossed opinion, but then my games are up there on this site. so would you blame me?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Talksina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Piracy of accessible software > well, > not to open a flame about this, but, talking about other > blind-related software, they are really really really too expensive! > I do not talk about games, that cost maximum 40 euro. And, that, for > example, a user wanting to play a game, can use his/her money to buy > the game, instead of... buying cigarettes, or something else that is > damaging his health. > But what, in my opinion, is too expensive, are other kind of > softwares. Think about Jaws, Window-Eyes, Talks or MobileSpeak for > mobile phones, Sapi5 synths (such as Loquendo)... > Your discussion is valid for games, or small softwares (such as > VoiceEmotion or PowerGramo, the voip assistants), goldwave, sound > forge and so on > But you lie to yourself if you say that you wouldn't desire to have > free access to your computer or mobile phone, or, at least, to spend > less money! Not to have to spend the double price because we are > blind, for a device which is sold to sighted people with an accessible > price > Yes, they could develop something free in that case, too. There is a > tool called NVDA for computers, and a Sapi5 called eSpeak, not high > quality but open source and free > but not for mobile phones > In general, I am against software piracy, as it damages the > alternative free or low-cost software, but I do not lie to myself: > most of softwares we NEED, are a real theft. > Think about what happened on eMule 2 years ago > An anonymous user, having the machine on 24 hours a day, started to > distribute a file called "nokia talks 2.xx IMEI key generator", which > just contained an executable wich, once launched, destroyed all > computer data: everything in hard disk, internal or external or > partitions, was removed > There is no possibility to get any proof on that, but many people > thought (and think) this comes from Nuance, Talks producer, but > writing this on the Internet, as there are no proof, could cause > problems. So, as we say in Italy, "incarta e porta a casa". That is, > literally translated, pack it and take it home. It means, take it as it is > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
