Re: [orca-list] BREAKING NEWS: UBUNTU SCRAPPING GNOME IN VERSION 11.04!

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hi,
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 04:39:08AM -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
> I respect any distro's right to choose their direction, and certainly
> Ubuntu has done the same.

ACK.
However all big distros which are sponsored by a company have serious
accessibility problems.
Ubuntu was an example how a11y could work in mainstream distros in the
past 
but _I
Am_ sure this decision will change that.

> What concerns me about Canonical's decision to go with Unity is that
> they are requesting that any contributions to Unity development be given
> the copyrights to Canonical.  To say that this is a concern is an
> undertatement for me, as people need to understand that if they wish to
> contribute to accessibility and maintain freedom and copyrights, it
> needs to be done directly through GNOME accessibility for which then
> Ubuntu can "use" the software.  But if you contribute to Unity for
> accessibility instead, then your work becomes the property of Canonical.

Well afaik the speech-dispatcher projects does the same :-(. All
contributions should give cr to brailcom.
It seems this will get more popular these days :-(.
BR.
Halim