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

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 07:52 -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Because most people don't give a darn about idealism when practicality  
> is warranted. Let's not continue this, as it will turn into a holy war  
> that is off topic for this list. If you want to debate the ideals of  
> free software there are plenty of other places to do it.
While I completely agree that this is off topic (note that many off
topic discussions go un noticed and no one says any thing), I think such
kind of attitude as "care a daan about freedom " is *never to be
unforgiven *.
Infact the "practicality " is the concept this proprietory terrorists
use to jail us into a technology that takes our freedom away and I agree
that if there are free software which are inaccessible, they should be
given priority and that is the most "practical " thing because if there
were *no* alternatives, We can think otherwise.

But let's take this discussion elsewhere may be we can debait on this
offtopic but at least make sure that freedom is not insulted.

There are many other chat messengers which will even allow voice over ip
and I still don't know how accessible is empathy.
We as orca users and developers can do a lot to make such tools more and
more accessible and provide high quality and "very practical " softwares
which are not just cost effective but open to further development and
review and re-development.

Even this email is off-topic but I post it here so that interested
people will firstly stop being harsh with people who value their freedom
and would know that I am the one who would be open to discuss this off
the list.  I don't claim my words as the last on this topic but Please
mail me off the list and we can have a nice discussion while
concentrating on orca which is indeed free software.

happy hacking.
Krishnakant.



happy hacking.
Krishnakant.