Re: [orca-list] The new Hypra website

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

I haven't read the goals of hypra, I want to make that clear. But based 
on what kyle says I have to agree with him. Fix the available open 
source stuff, like espeak, which desperately needs people. I do what I 
can but I'm only one person. Begging proprietary companies to for 
example update eloquence for linux will probably please a few people who 
won't use anything else but it won't do a thing for espeak. Instead of 
asking a company to make a proprietary expensive OCR package like 
kirzwale, god I hope I'm not mangling that one too horribly, available 
for linux, concentrate on either improving the open source OCR engines 
like teseract and kuniform or write another one. My opinion can 
basically be summed up as rather than trying to make linux into windows 
by adding non free code, make it better by writing free code and 
improving the existing stuff we have now. It's not easy, this I know 
first hand from trying to get people who don't use linux interested in 
it but people will find us eventually. That's something I've also 
learned. I don't have to preach and procilitize, people will find linux 
when they get tired of whatever OS they use. Until then they will often 
refuse to listen to you, make excuses for your reasons, and generally 
make you want to crawl into a hole and never come out. Talk to fudge or 
luke one of these days if you think I'm exagerating.

Thanks
Kendell Clark

On 08/25/2016 05:13 AM, Kyle wrote:
> We already have complete free software solutions for both ocr and 
> speech synthesis. Along with improving accessibility of applications 
> and desktop environments, it would be better to improve and suggest 
> bug fixes for the free software ocr and speech synthesis solutions we 
> already have rather than relying on the proprietarianists to keep 
> their software updated and maintained,. It would seem that the overall 
> goal here is to help the community at large, and improving existing 
> free software will go much further toward that goal than serving 
> proprietary interests ever could. Just my thoughts, thanks for reading.
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