[optacon-l] Re: To All Subscribers Of This List
- From: "cpond" <cpond@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:43:53 -0400
What of the display? At this stage, no such open source display, let alone
any display, can be produced.
Charle
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From: Jyrki Voutilainen
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 8:28 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: To All Subscribers Of This List
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Mallard wrote:
> I had even suggested that, fi anything is done at all, this time we
> should make sure it's open hardware and open software, to avoid seeing
> it go away again. Dr. Bliss said he agreed on this point, and it should
> certainly be open hardware and open software.
Oh yes, it has to be that, because â as you say in other words â nothing
else than open hardware and open software would work nowadays!
> I'm sure something could definitely be done, and I'm sure a lot of blind
> people would welcome it, even many younger people who hadn't been
> blessed with the joy of owning an Optacon before.
I couldn't agree more, because nothing else than the Optacon gives such a
clear picture â or image â of the document layout, the formation of letters
etc.
> If it hadn't been for the Optacon, I could never have worked at IBM, or
> studied a lot of languages (including Finnish, by the way).
Oh yes, I agree even though I haven't used the Optacon that much in my own
language studies as I probably could have, but much more in my everyday life
as I probably mentioned in my first mail on this list.
> I really hope the idea fo a new Optacon won't be abandoned completely,
> and something will come up sooner or later.
And I don't see why this wouldn't be able to happen very soon in addition to
other technical development!
Regards,
--
Jyrki Voutilainen
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