Future promises for BrailleNote From CSUN

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

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Hi all,

Of interest to all BrailleNote and VoiceNote users, without doubt, was the 
PulseData coverage on CSUN presented to Main Menu.  This is Marlaina 
Malmburg and Jonathan Mosen (probably got the spellings wrong, sorry about 
that) in a head-to-head about the BN presentation at CSUN, the new 
features in KeySoft v5.1, and - of likely the greatest interest to us and 
other BN users - the future development model for the BrailleNote that is 
vaguely hinted at in response to Marlaina's line of admirably direct 
questioning concerning the BrailleNote as a closed platform.  You want to 
hear this.  The link to the MP3 from ACB Radio's Main Menu's archive is:
http://www.acbradio.org/archives/mainmenu/mm1653.mp3

The immediate questions that spring to my mind - and there always will be 
some - seem to be: if the development model is sufficiently open that any 
number of utilities and applications can be written for the BrailleNote, 
is the BrailleNote-On-Linux project still worth pursuing?  If so, is the 
possible lack of functionality lost in the transition to Linux going to be 
worth the use of entirely open source software?  Is now the time to 
advocate open source to PulseData, in the hope that they will see the 
immediate value in it and its obvious benefits in the war that is now 
waged so terribly against FreedomScientific?  Does the licensing bother 
concerning the open source software I reported on earlier still warrant, 
to you, the need to open source the entire system?  Do you feel at peace 
with PulseData and/or their methods and predictions, or do you hate them 
to bits?  If PulseData made their architecture open, does it bother you 
that Windows CE is going to be closed - just how far do you want this to 
go, or how far do you think it's worth going?  From my last enquiry: do 
you understand the virtue of PulseData's methods - the ease-of-use 
philosophy?  Are PulseData slow to catch, and do they have an attitude 
problem, or is it just that Jonathan is being honest and things will 
improve?  Your answers, as always, are of interest.  My answers will 
probably make their appearance shortly afterward - either here or on their 
BN list.

Speaking of which, how do you get onto that list?  I can't find a single 
reference on their homepage!

Cheers,
Sabahattin
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