From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bmcginty.hopto.org (5.subnet-72-18-98.ellijay.com [72.18.98.5]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53D3A1EF753 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 23:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bmcginty.hopto.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 15A412480CA; Fri, 10 May 2013 23:50:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 23:50:29 -0400 From: Brandon McGinty-Carroll To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux Message-ID: <20130511035029.GL2324@bmcginty.hopto.org> References: <25752.1368029641@ccs.covici.com> <518A9206.8090008@math.wisc.edu> <518B4FCB.6090003@baechler.net> <518BAC38.8060708@math.wisc.edu> <20130509193744.GJ2324@bmcginty.hopto.org> <518C29C9.90704@gmail.com> <518C2BCC.3010003@tysdomain.com> <518C416D.3080309@insightbb.com> <20130510182712.GF3601@concerto.rednote.net> <20130511013524.GA9457@jdc.jasonjgw.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130511013524.GA9457@jdc.jasonjgw.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 03:50:33 -0000 Janina and list, I would appreciate a list of any companies of names you know who are associated with this incarnation of IBMTTS. It's worth a shot to see if we can contact one or all of these entities; doing nothing, as we (read that "me") have seen with speakup leads to a buggered situation. Janina, didn't you work with these folks a while back distributing TTSynth? Or was that someone else... Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Brandon McGinty-Caroll On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:35:24AM +1000, Jason White wrote: > Janina Sajka wrote: > > Not lost. Problem is that it has a lot of owners, i.e. > > people/corporations who own a piece of it. Getting a rebuild, especially > > with enhancements, would take a firm of lawyers just to get the project > > started. > > There might be lawyers associated with the free/open-source software community > who would work on this if it could lead to the release of the code. However, > any one of the aforementioned people/corporations could just say "no", or > demand royalties. > > This is one way in which proprietary software dies, unfortunately. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup