From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IARa6-0003nb-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:29:46 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B1AA05C for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:29:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:29:45 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: HN2ziygVRXeJb5JV1Yqn2FYKsoEie0rFj5SQwFmlpN5h 1184596185 Received: from cq.ftml.net (24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.197.112]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B93634F for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:29:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chuckh by cq.ftml.net with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IARa5-0003kS-9j for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:29:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:29:45 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: gentoo drops speakup Message-ID: <20070716142945.GA14284@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070715163625.GA10814@localhost.localdomain> <01bb01c7c7b3$f1c52110$4ba65c90@vv507j> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01bb01c7c7b3$f1c52110$4ba65c90@vv507j> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:29:46 -0000 Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:16:47AM -0500, John Heim wrote: > > I wonder if it would help to draw attention to the problem. What is the NFB > doing about this? They are always talking about jobs. It seems to me that a > lot of jobs for blind people depend on speakup. It's conceivable that a > group like the NFB might even be willing to put up enough money to have > somebody work on it for 3 months or 6 months or whatever it would take to > fix the problem. Who knows? It might be worth exploring anyway. Perhaps some NFB folks on the list could address this. But as on outside observer, my impression is that NFB, i.e. NFBCS, is in love with Windows and the 3rd party developers, and not much impressed with open source and the Linux world. To quote Greg, who says it so well, I stand to be corrected here. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (5% of Full) My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.