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<p> Hello:</p>
<p>I was being shown as Jake Mcmahan Charles Mcmahan. This should
be fixed. As I've previously said, I like dectalk as much as the
next guy but I do believe that if work is being put into this we
should commend and support who's doing the work. Talking to
people who may have ran the project back when would only obscure
the foundation of the folks who are working on it now. I do
remember back in 2011 when talks of dectalk and coding first came
up. There was a man who had done some work on the code (I think
he'd passed away). But yes, there were several attempts to
jumpstart this project again.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/2022 8:36 PM, William Prestwich
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I find the most annoying and frankly insulting to the person
who put in all the hard work to get it up and running again is
you didn't seem interested in the fate of the source code for
all the years it has been leaked and available - it's only
when someone else got it working again through their hours of
hard work and expertise that you now seem to think its 'our'
code and for you to personally pursue previous owners of it to
try to get it open sourced. Now it comes across to me as
though you are putting the hard work of others at risk of
being completely shut down when you have done nothing to have
got it working in the first place... Who are you to decide any
of this?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 11:56
AM jake mcmahanCharles Mcmahan <<a
href="mailto:mcmahan.jake@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">mcmahan.jake@gmail.com</a>>
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You know something:<br>
<br>
I really like dectalk, it's a great synthesizer and it'd be
cool to see <br>
it used in other types of tech such as iPhones and what not.
However, <br>
I'm seriously going to have to agree with an earlier post from
William. <br>
Roger Dudley doesn't appear to be interested in communicating
with any <br>
of us, so whether anyone talks to him simply doesn't make any
<br>
difference. I have had a conversation with mike from access
solutions <br>
and he's a great guy. I do believe what Mike is getting at is
that <br>
Dectalk is too old for anyone to really care much what others
do with <br>
it. Still, I can't say I'd step into that realm myself
because there <br>
may be some other legal issues that are more off the table.
In other <br>
words, I do see a little legal line which I wouldn't cross
myself, <br>
though primarily I don't think too much feedback would be
generated. I <br>
just don't believe we should go bothering Roger and others who
managed <br>
this years ago. Just my opinion.<br>
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On 12/1/2022 3:37 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:<br>
> Hi Josh,<br>
> I have known Mike for years, and while he he is many
things, he is not <br>
> a lawyer.<br>
> I am not disputing your story in any way.<br>
> If Roger, who I assume is the person who wrote dectalk
code does not <br>
> care, he can put this in writing.<br>
> securing this will not be hard, if indeed Roger does not
care, <br>
> especially, unless you recorded that conversation,
hearsay will likely <br>
> carry little legal protection.<br>
> Mike did not build those dectalk units, the only sells
them.<br>
> still, what harm will it do to have Roger put in writing
that he <br>
> gives full permission for whomever to develop the dectalk
code. That <br>
> said party can freely distribute the code as they wish,
and that Roger <br>
> relinquishes all future writes to the code hence forth?<br>
> Just a thought, better written then questioned later.<br>
> Karen<br>
><br>
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> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, <a
href="mailto:joshknnd1982@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">joshknnd1982@gmail.com</a>
wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I spoke to Mike Cozz from Colorado, maker of decTalk
USB and triple-talk<br>
>> USB. He said it is ridiculous and laughable that
people are going to <br>
>> be sued<br>
>> for doing what we want with decTalk source code. He
also told me <br>
>> right on<br>
>> the phone that Roger Dudley does not care what we do
with the source <br>
>> code.<br>
>> As far as Mike and Roger are concerned, DecTalk is
ours to do with <br>
>> what we<br>
>> want. They don't even care if we distribute it with
NVDA. If you don't<br>
>> believe me then email me off list and I can have you
talk to Mike <br>
>> himself. I<br>
>> spent a few hours oon the phone with him discussing
various tts <br>
>> software and<br>
>> hardware. Mike and Roger do not care and I heard it
myself over the <br>
>> phone<br>
>> last night from Mike himself.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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