Re: [orca-list] Braille WAS Re: A question for a traceback error message prewenting related

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I'm not a big fan of Freedom Scientific.  they have a practice of
gouging people for years and they tend to be rather anti competitive.
They sue their competitors at any chance.

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:24:57PM +0100, Mallory van Achterberg wrote:
> Hm, I thought I heard C Hofsteder tweeting that Freedom Scientific
> had really lowered prices recently (and that they'd been overpriced
> to begin with).
>
> Maybe check out if there are new prices today?
>
> -Mallory
>
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:19:47AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I do programming on both mainframes and my personal linux systems at
> > home and use speech for all of it.  I can't personally aford the
> > extremely high prices for a braille display.  I can see how
> > productivity would improve but I have to evaluate the payback.  I
> > started out using an Optacon with a CRT lense to read the screen.
> > then speech came along and performance improved significantly.  
> >
> > I think a big drop in braille dissplay prices could really prove to be
> > a boom for blind programmers and proof readers.
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