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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
I kind of jumped in the middle of this. Does he need to use skype for
his job? I don't think he should use skype. That said, it *is*
possible to get it working. My main objection was that linux shouldn't
go out of it's way to support an application that can't move with the
times, not necessarily that it was owned by microsoft. If ms were
serious about supporting skype on linux, they'd have built it for 64
bit qt, making all this effort to get it working unnecessary. Then my
only objection would be that it's closed source, which isn't enough of
an objection to yell at a person for wanting to use it. To sum up, I
didn't write that email because it's microsoft skype, but rather
because it's a 32 bit qt application, and getting those talking with
orca on a 64 bit system is not trivial. And when it doesn't work, who
 gets blamed? Linux. Linux should make it easy, why doesn't this work,
... etc etc.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> 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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