[Newchix] Microsoft Pushing products? maybe more towards Linux? (fwd)

[Gregory Nowak]

There are 2 things worth pointing out here. One is that speakup is free of charge simply because Kirk chose not to make a profit out of it, for which he deserves thanks from thoes who can't really afford to spend money to keep their screen reader current (I'm still using wineyes 3.1 when I'm in the other OS). Second, even though we don't get that message which you mentioned below, we still get segmentation faults once in a while. Now, the good part is that the offending program doesn't take the whole system with it, unlike something else I could name but choose not to.
Greg


On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:47:09PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> This is very interesting.  I think that If a GUI That is as easy, if not
> easier, to use than windows, This would be very atractive to Schools.  Also
> the adaptive technology for linux is mostly free.  This is good because lets
> say I was taking a highschool class in HTML.  On a windows box, A screen
> reader is $500+.  The school would have to buy it and pay for it and any
> upgrades.  On linux, a simple kernel recompilation and bingo! Talking
> computer usable by a blind student.  And lets face it, there's no "This
> Program Has performed an elegal operation and will shut down" message in
> linux. Oh, I wonder If microsoft has copyrighted that message.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deedra Waters" <curi0315 at tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:47 PM
> Subject: [Newchix] Microsoft Pushing products? maybe more towards Linux?
> (fwd)
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> > Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:44:48 -1000
> > From: Ralph Miranda <dragonhawk007 at hotmail.com>
> > To: newchix at linuxchix.org
> > Subject: [Newchix] Microsoft Pushing products?  maybe more towards Linux?
> >
> > Get a load of this info... Microsoft in Oregon?  talk about heavy handed.
> >
> >
> http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf
> /html_standard.xsl?/base/all_wire_stories/101386428029222529.xml
> >
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