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

["hank smith" <hanksmith5 gmail com>]

well said
I am sorry if I lost my cool I just know alot of folks do use skype me being 
one of them and I have to go in to windows do do that and I shouldn't have 
to.
I know as I said before at least from what I can tel alot of the majority of 
the blind comunity also use skype both on mac and windows
take care
Hank
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
To: "Krishnakant" <hackingkk gmail com>
Cc: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT Orca, Skype and accessibility workaround


> 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
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