From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rdu74-132-037.nc.rr.com ([24.74.132.37] helo=princenet.sytes.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194IcM-0006rL-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:52:18 -0400 Received: from princenet.sytes.net (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by princenet.sytes.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3CApkb2000427 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:51:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (lorenzo@localhost) by princenet.sytes.net (8.12.8/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id h3CApi7l000424 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:51:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:51:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo Prince To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: This sucks! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Well, IMHO, I believe that having proprietary closed-license software kinda defeats the purpose of using Linux as an open-source sollution. Somebody just needs to step up and make a usable open-source sollution for OCR and a few other things we still need. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Adam Myrow staggered into view and mumbled: > Well, after carefully reading the Vividata web site, it states that > personal licenses are no longer offered. That pretty much eliminates me > ever gettin any OCR software under Linux. BTW, I can tell that I'll > probably never get OCR shop working anyway since trying to run the > installer leads to a segmentation fault and the manual, which is in PDF, > is copy-protected. Guess I'm stuck in Windows until Gocr becomse usable. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >