Re: [orca-list] why Skype works in Ubuntu 15.04

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

On 05/13/2015 05:26 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> As for skype ... not to
> sound harsh or uncaring, but fsck microsoft. If they cannot and will
> not rebuilt their application to at the very least use 64 bit qt4
> libraries, which, while being phased out, are at least still supported
> upstream, then they don't deserve your business, obsession, whatever
> you want to call it.

There are plenty of people who need to use Skype as part of their jobs. 
This has nothing to do with people wanting to give Microsoft their 
business or being obsessed about Microsoft products. I used Skype in a 
previous job, and I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be unemployed over an 
unwillingness to use a product where the developers have yet to port 
their application over to a new library. I don't care how you feel about 
Microsoft, and everyone can have their own opinion, but I think it is 
pretty harsh to tell a blind person who needs to use Skype as part of 
their job that they just shouldn't use a Microsoft product.

BTW, I'm not so sure Microsoft isn't going to update Skype for Linux. A 
lot of nay sayers said Microsoft would kill Skype on Linux when they 
first acquired it, and they've since released updates to Skype for 
Linux. For Skype to be successful, it has to have a lot of users, and 
Microsoft needs to support it on Linux like clients, even if they don't 
see Linux as a big market.

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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail