Re: [orca-list] The new Hypra website

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

The problem is for now. 
I agree that as much as is practical we should always base work on FOS products and services, software, and 
systems, but some people must have something 
that works well enough for them today, not in a month, much less in 6 months or a couple of years, or when it 
happens, and someone must make the effort to 
help them as well. 
Some people can choose to not take on a project or job if it forces them to use non-free stuph, but others 
can not reasonably make that choice, or must use 
something non-free for now so that they become economically and or professionally stable enough to make other 
decisions in the future. 
I am not trying to get in to a debate, nor say that there is a right or better way to live and or compute 
that fits all users and situations, just saying 
that I aplaud the project for making a nonfree OCR engine available for those who need it. 
I think the people involved will choose FOS whenever possible from what little I know of them and their 
values and wishes, and for the record that is what 
I would most like to see, and I will support and promote the project more if that is the case. 
Anyway, I say thank you for your work  with the Hypra  Project, and for organizing your team to make Linux 
computing more accessible for blind and low 
vision folks.
  

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     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886


  Kyle wrote:
Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 06:13:31AM -0400

> 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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