Re: [orca-list] Request for clarification.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:30:48PM EST, Jason White wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:02:52AM +0530, SatyaNarayana Murthy Tanikella wrote:
> > After careful observation of the listI got the doubt.
> > Why is not supporting the accessibility of Fedora like Canonical
> > supporting the accessibility of Ubuntu?
>
> Fedora is a community project. Members of that community, including Janina,
> are supporting accessibility in that distribution. It is not a commercial
> product such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux for which the vendor offers support
> contracts. If you want to know about the availability of support for Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, which includes many technologies originally developed for
> Fedora, ask Red Hat.
>
> Canonical provide paid support for Ubuntu, and I expect this would include
> support for its accessibility features, to the extent that they are integrated
> into the main (supported) repository.

Thats not quite true. Accessibility was integrated into Ubuntu because people from the community, i.e myself, 
wanted to improve Ubuntu's accessibility, and it was just a matter of talking with other Ubuntu developers, 
in this case people from Canonical, to help get things set up.

Up until recently, Canonical have only included accessibility as long as therehas been community help to keep 
it maintained and supported. However, since I've been working for them, they are happy for me to spend time 
working on accessibility as part of my work. However, I could easily turn around, and no longer work on 
accessibility, and while they may be disappointed, they certainly wouldn't likely order me to continue 
accessibility work, as its not something that they see as something important to support in a big way, yet. 

Hope this makes sense, and yes, I will of course continue the work I'm doing on accessibility.

Luke
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFIEyCcjVefwtBjIM4RAtXeAJ4mQEZP38Bnx0EwIAdkWT5KSvWj7wCgyxK5
DJ0aaGdoHehG5srfZrSmXc4=
=EBFO
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----