Re: [orca-list] GUI Redesign or clearup and modernization

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

it wouldn't take much to bring that stuff to linux. nuance just has to 
package their voices for the software center abby fineReader make their 
product for ubuntu software center and maybe cakewalk in gtk for linux 
and you'd have it. the problem iis not linux the problem is microsoft 
right now has most of the market. you could easily dual boot windows and 
ubuntu get the best of both that way if you want.

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On 9/2/2015 1:13 PM, Devin Prater wrote:
> For your slight information, I am not a gov blink. Nope, I actually abhore ADRS for how they destroy independence. I 
> ordered the Vario Ultra 20 for $2300. And how, may I ask, is Linux accessibility "far ahead of what we Apple and 
> Windows folk" get? Y'all don't even have a good way of making music, OCR, good TTS engines, and fewer games than 
> the Mac even has. I find that you Linux fans assume a lot. :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the upcoming rant, but some of this nonsense I'm seeing drove
> > me to it.
> >
> > I can still build an 8-core x86_64 computer for less money than it
> > currently costs to purchase even the least expensive open source
> > braille displays, which are still costly prototypes. Once braille
> > becomes as affordable as say for instance a computer monitor, then
> > maybe more people will have the means to code for them, and braille
> > won't be just for lucky blind government entitlement babies anymore.
> > Until then, braille is always going to be too expensive to get enough
> > people working on to improve it. Sorry, that's just the way it is. And
> > no, I didn't use braille back in the days when I had access to Windows
> > either, because I'm not a blind government baby who expected all the
> > expensive stuff to be handed to me like I'm entitled to it or
> > something, which is also why I use Linux now and help where I can to
> > raise awareness and to contribute where I can to its development and
> > wider usage by *all* people, not just entitlement blinks. No, Linux
> > isn't "catching up" as you Microsoft and Apple lovers so eloquently put
> > it. It's here, and it's far ahead of anything else you could be using.
> > So get used to it.
> > Sent from my Cancerian beast
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