[optacon-l] Re: To All Subscribers Of This List
- From: Mallard <mallard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:22:12 +0100
Well, the fact that it doesn't exist now doesn't mean it will never
exist... Of course, if research is never started, it will never get
anywhere...
Look... When I was a teenager, I kept buying books and piling them up in
my room.
Since I was born blind, my friend asked me why on earth would I do that.
I told them I was absolutely sure that one day someome would invent
something that would allow me to read those books - and then the Optacon
came.
I have a dream, if you like - and Open hardware and open software Optacon...
I'm sure it can be done. I'm ready to pay for it if it comes, and even
to fund research for the little I can put in.
Let's see what happens.
Brecht (I think it was him) once said that "the only battle that's lost
for sure is the one we never fight".
So, let's fight it if we believe there's a need.
Ciao,
Ollie
Il 04/11/2012 2.43, cpond ha scritto:
> What of the display? At this stage, no such open source display, let alone
> any display, can be produced.
>
> Charle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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,
>
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