[optacon-l] Re: To All Subscribers Of This List
- From: "Fran" <fran.italy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 21:19:03 +0100
I share both dreams!! Beautifully said, guys.
Fran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jyrki Voutilainen" <jykke.voutilainen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 1:53 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: To All Subscribers Of This List
>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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