[DECtalk] decTalk 4.4 4.5 and 4.6 as sapi5?

[Josh Kennedy]

well in that case since it is so darn complicated, I'm just going to use it with NVDA and I'm just going to assume that it's abandoned and be done with it. I really don't think he's going to care if I use some 25 to 30 year old version of DECTALK, that nobody is hardly using anyway. and who knows, maybe I can pay some developer out there to make a SAPI5 version of the 4.41 version of DECTALK. And if so, I'll just give it away to people for free. and if Roger Dudley comes after me for whatever reason, oh well who cares. Because I certainly don't care since he won't get in touch with me about it to begin with. So I guess that's his own fault for not communicating with anybody about a very old product. at least I can give credit to human wear, at least human we have said we don't have time to do anything regarding KEYNOTE gold, because we're busy with other products. So I have to give humanware credit for at least communicating with me about their old product and furthermore they said the people who made that product well that version of their company shut down 13 or 14 years ago. 


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> On Jun 26, 2021, at 10:03, Don <Text_to_Speech at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6/25/2021 9:20 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:
>> no idea it looks like DECTALK is abandoned after all.
> 
> Or, he's sitting on it with plans for a new product.
> Or, he's sold it to someone else.
> Or, he's got an agreement with some competing firm NOT
> to offer his product (to infringe on sales of the
> competitor's product).
> Or...
> 
> "Abandoned" has a very specific LEGAL meaning when it comes
> to intellectual property.  It's not like "finding" an old
> truck in a field and laying claim to it, despite absence
> of title.
> 
> <https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/abandoned_property>
> 
> "In the context of intellectual property, abandoned property
> refers to the relinquishing of intellectual property rights
> by an owner, thereby allowing others to use the intellectual
> property without protest.  For example, an inventor who does
> not register a patent to his invention relinquishes the
> patent rights associated with his invention, allowing others
> to use his invention freely and without recourse."
> 
> Note the use of the word "relinquish" -- a *deliberate* act
> to release your claim to the property rights associated
> with an item.
> 
> One way to find out, for sure, is to take out an ad in
> the NYTimes selling copies of the product and use, as
> your defense, the fact that the legitimate owner never
> tried to stop you (in some reasonable period of time).
> 
> The downside of this is the owner CAN stop you -- at
> considerable expense to *you*!
> 
> I suspect the original DECtalk copyright dates AFTER the
> 1976 revisions to copyright law.  As such, those terms
> apply.  It will be another several decades before the
> copyright might "lapse" into the public domain (if the
> holder fails to reassert it to "restart the clock")
> 
> Pick one of the FOSS projects and port it to whatever platform
> you're interest lies.  Then, you have complete control over YOUR
> implementation -- forever!
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