[DECtalk] dectalk in general

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 14:08:48 EDT 2010


Hi,

It's true about no company not wanting to sell older versions, they
just want the money.  I just wish the DT 5.0 demo was available but
seems it's slipped off the face of the Earth.

Alex

On 9/23/10, ebruckert Bruckert <edbruckert at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, my feekings aren't hurt beccause people like 4.4 or 4.3 better,
> because I did all of those versions. With limite3d time I did try to
> understand the preferences, rememdering that I had source code to all. The
> end result was that we could not really define what made one more
> preferable. Why things chnage is due to a multitude of reasons and would be
> a long running.
>      The story about Laura is true butnot the whole truth. Dennis was always
> concerned about handicapped uses and the sing was deliberately put in by
> Dennis, nt for his daughter but so that speech synthesizers userws could
> sing- that was his motivation.
>       Lastly, no company wants to sell old versions because the support
> liability ways outways any profit- it's a pure money decision.
>   That deosn't mean we're at the end of the road. If enable can produce a
> version that is they're sole responsibility to support ( probably with a
> name chnage)., they might go for that. I have source code archived for all
> this stuff.
>



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