It's definitely government-linked, but it's like an insurance system here. Or not really, but I can't find the appropriate word. They'll sometimes decide what you're going to get, but not always. For instance, I can chose a new braille line and almost every reasonable 40-cells model will be excepted since my old one is 5 years old. But that's how things are done here, probably not over there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Piracy of accessible software
mail me privately offlist about this. I'd like to know how this works. The way I have to get software that you need to buy other than downloading it, is quite dificult. I need to go through a funding agency linked to the government. I have a yearly limit of 5000 and a student limit of 15000. I place an order for what I want and why, and I need a good reason for that. Then I need to have a couple interviews. After that when the cash is avalible I will get the stuff. The whatever I get may be the cheapest thing in existance and it will die and bad things. The first pc through such things did this. I'd be interested how I would go about getting this through insurance, I have never gone down this root. But there is always this thing about me needing to get more cash for new things because I need to replace things sooner or later. At 10:29 p.m. 23/05/2007, you wrote: >Well, >Necessary blindy software is not expensive. Or in fact it is, but you'll >get >the money back from your insurance company because you really need it. This >includes screenreaders and speech synths, but the same goes for software >like OmniPage Pro (OCR). >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Talksina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:50 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
