Re: [orca-list] How many people us voxin?

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

I think that as long as one does not care for their digital freedom, it 
then comes down to matter of taist and just how much money one can save.
That way 6$ is not a big amount.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 03/11/2013 12:58 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Well, everyone's allowed to have their opinion, and I don't think anyone
> is forcing anyone to buy, install or use Voxin.
>
> No one said you should install Voxin just because you can. If someone is
> coming from Windows and prefers the Eloquence synthesizer or someone
> can't stand the eSpeak TTS, I don't see why this can't be an option.
>
> I never got the impression that installing these libraries was hidden
> behind all sorts of complex scripting. I haven't looked at the Voxin
> scripts, but I have looked at the Emacspeak scripts from Oralux, and
> they don't seem to be that complex to me, and I didn't see anything
> nefarious in them. they just placed the right dependencies in the right
> places, at least from what I could see.
>
> Are you aware of any documented vulnerabilities in these scripts or
> libraries? I'm sure a lot of the code I have installed on my system has
> some potential vulnerabilities.
>
> I'm also not sure that every application I have installed and I'm using
> on my system has been actively developed in the last two years. I'm not
> going to check the change log for every application I find useful to
> make sure the code has been touched in the last two years.
>
> I don't think anyone on this list or anyone in this discussion has said
> or implied that voxin is better in anyway because it costs $5 USD.
>
> On 10/03/13 14:17, Kyle wrote:
> > On the other hand, I'm not about to install just anything on my system
> > just because I can, or because it's available to me. And it scares me
> > even more that all the incompatibilities and 10-year-old low-level
> > libraries, with all their potential vulnerabilities, are hidden behind
> > all kinds of complex scripting, so that all I have to do is download the
> > archive and run the script in order to install something that honestly
> > shouldn't work on an OS that is less than 2 years old. The pragmatist in
> > me screams "STOP!" at the thought, and screams even louder at the
> > thought that I would actually have to pay money for something like this.
> > I have nothing at all against paying money for something, but if I'm
> > paying for it, it needs to be compatible with the newest libraries and
> > OS-level dependencies,, or it must at least be compatible with the
> > latest Ubuntu LTS without introducing outdated and obsolete libraries
> > that could hose my system, or could allow someone else to gain root
> > privileges on my machine. Paying for something doesn't somehow make it
> > magically better. This is a quite unfortunate misconception.
> > ~Kyle
> > http://kyle.tk/
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