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As long as I don't use Linux on company time, they leave me alone:).

On 
Sun, 3 Feb 2002, David Poehlman wrote:

> but they allow you to be conformant so why not?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Hunt" <wx1g@mediaone.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Cc: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup@speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: blind friendly or people friendly
> 
> 
> In principal, I agree.  However, to many, my employers included,
> Microsoft is the industry.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
> 
> > I agree.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck@valstar.net>
> > To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup@speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:27 PM
> > Subject: blind friendly or people friendly
> >
> >
> > All the recent posts about how to configure outlook express to be
> > "blind friendly" is a little troubling to me. It seems to me that
> > the issue is bigger than that. There are industry standards, and
> > there are Microsoft standards, and often the problem comes
> > because the two are not the same. One way to resolve the problem
> > is for everyone, blind or otherwise, to use outlook express and
> > thus use Microsoft standards everywhere. But the world is larger
> > than Microsoft, and many of us who use Linux follow the industry
> > standard - e.g., plain text for email, iso8859-1 for a standard
> > western character set, and the like.
> >
> > Another way to resolve the problem is for users of outlook
> > express, blind or otherwise, to configure their software to
> > adhere to industry standards rather than Microsoft standards. I
> > think that is very different from being "blind friendly"... It is
> > being "people friendly".
> >
> > Grumpily - Chuck
> >
> >
> > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (59% of Full)
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