Hewlet Packard and Linux

[David Poehlman]

this seems to be a catch 22 no market no support no support no market.
I think some brave soul should begin to outlet it so that there will be
a market.  Of course, there are other barriers to break as well.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford at ACB.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Hewlet Packard and Linux


Janina and all,

I agree that ACB would not be putting speech on a server located where
nobody needs it.  I do think however that if we are looking at Linux as
an
open system as a major selling point and if we are to force
consideration
of speech interfacing to at least mitigate the damages that can be done
by
full speed ahead Gui development, then we need to take some advocacy
position that gets the attention of companies.  While the same points
can
be made on a relative scale about Microsoft, there is the underlying
value
of openess to Linux that could easily get lost on our issues if we do
not
take a more proactive stance.

I had for example an exchange of email with the owner of an
accessibility
software house in which I pointed out that Linux ought to be
supported.  The answer was no market, and until there is one; not much
will
happen.

So the bottom line is if we want to advance Linux as a solution then it
must compete in the mainstream for access as well as other things.

Hope this made some sense.

-- Charlie.



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