From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from femail22.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.147]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16XnLj-00075o-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:56:15 -0500 Received: from cp286066a ([68.50.140.45]) by femail22.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20020204175611.VZVJ14927.femail22.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cp286066a> for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:56:11 -0800 Message-ID: <003a01c1ada5$3c5d96a0$2d8c3244@cp286066a> From: "David Poehlman" To: References: Subject: Re: Speech vendors shout for standards.html Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:56:12 -0500 Organization: Hands-on Technolog(eye)s X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: It's about a war among players in industry and how much money they can make by capturing market share. It's hard to justify free in that context. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Carmickle" To: Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:40 PM Subject: Re: Speech vendors shout for standards.html On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > I agree which is why I suggest that the fast track build on something > other than msaa if they can. There are some telling remarks in the > article and for lots of reasons, I hope vxml wins out. It is a good > standard being that it is cross platform and open. I am not sure really what this article was discussing. Living in a world where I only use freesoftware I don't tend to follow the big corporate news unless it's hardware related. What is this project about and how can we as a community help them to understand the benefits of open standards and freesoftware? -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec@dryrose.com _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup