[optacon-l] Re: To All Subscribers Of This List
- From: Jyrki Voutilainen <jykke.voutilainen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:53:43 +0200
I fully agree with everything below, and I have another dream too, wich is
definitely out-of-list, and that is nothing less or more than artificial
vision. But before that we definitely need an updated Optacon!
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Mallard wrote:
> 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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