On Apr 18, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Brett Winchester wrote:
>
> I had been  discussing a similar product with another major imaging
> company several years ago and the jury is still out as to that   
> product
> and their  bringing the result of their research to market.

Out of curiosity, are you talking about the P2RD?

I thought they did get it out. Thing is, it's based on a subnotebook  
(Fujitsu Lifebook), but that is clearly less portable than the new  
one coming out from NFb and Kurzweil.

It seems to me that the NFB isn't politicizing this as much as its  
detractors are, in this case. After all, as Brett points out, it's  
only right that the organization retain some rights to the project.  
It would be true if the company were, say, GW Micro. Anyway, whatever  
you think of the NFB, its politics, its organizational structure, its  
leaders, or whatever, it's clear to me that the portable reader's  
usefulness far outweighs many other considerations, and it will open  
doors and make our lives insofar as information access easier and  
better, regardless of your political stripe. Of course, if you'd  
rather not buy one or use one because you have issue with one of its  
development partners, that is certainly your right.
>


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