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

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 10.03.2009 at 13:11:03 Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com> wrote:

> 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.
Would you please turn down your speech? If you want not to be insulted
what you call your "freedom", then be so kind and don't call developers,
that work for companies "terrorists"!
This attitude is not only ideological, but cynical.
How can you call a lot of people that honnestly work for accessibility,
but in the Windows community, "terrorists"? Remember that a lot of
developers worked hard to make Firefox and other Mozilla products
accessible under Windows, to provide alternatives to MS' products? Why
must you insult them?
And one note regarding "alternatives": I know about half a dozen screen
readers for Windows, but only one under Linux' GUI. Any questions?

> 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.
We can do so, but I take myself the "freedom" to argue strongly against
such inapropriate behavior.
Hermann