Re: [orca-list] OT Orca, Skype and accessibility workaround

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 10.03.2009 at 12:24:58 Labrador <labrad0r edpnet be> wrote:

> Why should skype (a non free thing) be the first to be accessible
> while there are lots of free and opensource software under gpl, like
> amsn, pidgin, ekiga, teamspeak etc... ?
Because Skype is the most popular program, like it or not.
If you open it, you see that, in the meantime, about 16 Million people
have logged in.

> why should non-free be encouraged while free left unaccessible or
> unoptimized ?
See above. And those programs like Ekiga need a telephone account, which
is, of course, non-free.

> Why shouldn't skype users be invited to switch to other better tools? why
> does people uses skype with a maximum of person limits, while teamspeak
> servers autorize to talk together even if you are about 120 users ? (joke)
Used Teamspeak under Windows for a while, wasn't that good, bad voice
quality, slow performance etc etc.
But the whole thing turns out to repeat the same discussion: Pragmatism
versus ideological commitment, and, as I fear, the latter seems to be
stronger. :-(
Hermann