[DECtalk] Access 32 Legality Questions

Corine Bickley corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu
Wed May 11 09:37:44 EDT 2011


Your questions concerning legality as excellent questions. Enable is
interested, but of course will not offer any comment whatsoever as we
are governed by our license agreement with Fonix. I don't want to
jeopardize our plans. But I will read with great interest whatever you
all find out.
thank you for thinking of these issues - corine

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Michael Hansen <amtk62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a couple questions regarding legal use of Access 32:
>
> Is it legal to install Access 32 from a Kurzweil 1000 CD without an
> authorization disc, since it pretty much installs regardless of
> whether there is one present or not?  I have access to a Kurzweil disc
> from school (that kind of software is distributed to students for
> free) but there is no DECtalk authorization disc.  DECtalk Access 32
> is there on the disc, and it installs regardless of whether there is
> an authorization disc or not.
>
> Also, I have a copy of Access 32 from GW Micro that my parents
> obtained in 2002.  I have one authorization left (the others were lost
> due to computer crashes) and it is on an old HP laptop.  For some
> reason, when I go to transfer the data back to the copy protection
> disc, it will not work.  I haven't tried it in several months, but I
> recall a write error of some kind.  Assuming I am unable to find a way
> to get that copy protection off that laptop, is there a legal way I
> can get around the authorization since I *do* own the product?  I've
> tried contacting GW Micro, and they were no help.  Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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