Yeah, I agree with your views about supporting a company that hides its specs. It just happened that I bought this synth from a private party as a used item. But the principle is still true though. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 05:07:27PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Agreed again. I do seem to recall though that attempts were made way > back when to get the manufacturer of the tripletalk to disclose the > specs, and that those attempts failed. I remember telling myself > back then that I wouldn't give my business to a company which refused > to make its hardware open. Has this changed, or would tripletalk > support as of today need to be hacked together? If this hasn't > changed, and won't have changed by the time speakup supports the > tripletalk, then I guess the question for me would be first, can I > afford to get one at that time, and second, do I want one badly enough > to go back on my principals? Not to hijack the thread, but it would be > interesting to get viewpoints as far as giving business to companies > which refuse to open their hardware goes. > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
