Shawn,
Part of the high cost you rail against goes to develop elaborate schemes to
keep the software from being pirated. Speaking as someone who buys his own
software, I'd love to see the cost go down, but cracking the software won't
make that happen.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 20:46
Subject: Re: Of Top. Computerized Voices
> when the software is cost prohibitive in the first place, any moral
> concerns on the part of the end user go straight out the window.
> not all of us are in a position to have government assistance to
> purchase the afforementioned nore do we earn enough to even consider the
> possibility of buying it ourselves. sadly, ours is a rather specialised
> market, and any software vendor can do as they please with reference to
> pricing and the like, as evidenced by freedom science fiction and gw
> micro.
> ok, enough of a rant from me. that's just my take on the whole idea.
>
>
> On 13/04/2009 3:18 AM, Steve went skydiving, and on the way down,
> shouted thus.:
>> Hey Shaun,
>>
>> I don't know how your Department of Communication applies moral standards
>> to
>> licenses down under, but offering cracks of Jaws or other software is a
>> violation of copyright and international law. There are former hams here
>> in
>> the States who've not had their licenses renewed because of moral
>> terpitudes.
>>
>> Not only that, but the sharing of cracks doesn't help us because it
>> deprives
>> the software developers of revenue that they could use to make further
>> improvements to their product.
>>
>> Steve, K8SP
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shaun Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: Of Top. Computerized Voices
>>
>>
>> I have a cracked version here if anyone wants it.
>> I also have the realspeak solo voices here also.
>>
>>
>> On 12/04/2009 9:58 PM, Walt Sebastian went skydiving, and on the way
>> down, shouted thus.:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> I use Deck Talk Access 32. It is a software synthesizer and it used to
>>> be
>>> available from Jaws or Window Eyes but am not sure if it can be
>>> purchased
>>> any more. I just know that I like it and will be totally lost if I ever
>>> lose it,
>>>
>>> Walt
>>> WA4QXT
>>> New London CT
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>
>
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