From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@1tree.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Needs educating: Message from Linux (fwd)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:15:43 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201231309370.11386-100000@lbear> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16TRix-0002Al-00@gena-j.net>
The gap certainly isn't as large as many would like to believe. Especially
if you talk about those who can work with many programs. Heck, from what I
have seen, you either learn some basic programming skill, or wait for
someone to write the script in JFW.
Now in all fairness m$ can't win in the arena anyway. They purchased the
technology that Hinter-Joyce used back in win95 days. They just couldn't
get things as well as they needed to be. They kept working and this is
where msaa came into the picture. But you should have heard the screams
when basic screen reader functionality was announced as part of
win2k. There was some screaming over the magnifier in win98. First, the
screams because the OS isn't accessible. Then the screams cause they would
bankrupt the companies that formed to fix the first problem. Not to
mention that the companies can't agree on an interface to the OS.
It is a big benefit that companies aren't forming to provide access to
Linux. This way the guts will be standard and the user interface will be
the only variance. (Much as there are many interfaces to cdrecord, yet
only one main package in use for recording cds.)
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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
Nowlan's Theory:
He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
the next freeway exit.
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Needs educateingRE: " Richard Villa
` Needs educating: " David Arocho
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` randy turner
` Needs educateingRE: " Kirk Wood
` Thomas Ward
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Raul A. Gallegos
` Needs educating: " David Arocho
` Charles Crawford
` David Arocho
` Charles Hallenbeck
` Amanda Lee
` Geoff Shang
` Charles Crawford
` Geoff Shang
` Jason
` Charles Crawford
` Kirk Wood
` Amanda Lee
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` Amanda Lee
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` Kirk Wood
` Geoff Shang
` Georgina
` Amanda Lee
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` Amanda Lee
` Thomas Ward
` Amanda Lee
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` Amanda Lee
` Kirk Wood
` Charles Crawford
` Kirk Wood
` Kirk Wood
` Needs educateingRE: " Thomas Ward
` Georgina
` randy turner
Needs educating: " Gregory Nowak
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