Jaws under Linux?

[Janina Sajka]

For heavens sake, let's stop with the "don't thinks." Ignorance
is just that.

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, JP Schnapper-Casteras wrote:

> --- Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Woe! slow down there ann.
> > What he's wondering is, will jfw work on something like vmware.
> > imho, I don't think so.
> 
> Yup, thanks for the clarification.
> 
> > For starters, there's the issue of direct x.  I don't think that direct x
> > is even handled at all in a windows emulator.  I'll stand to be corrected
> > as always.
> >  there's also the issue of msaa and whether or not it will work on
> > something like vmware.
> > I can see his point but I also see the other side of the coin having
> > started from scratch with linux.
> > but I take your point too.
> > why pay through the nose for a crappy piece of software that gets major
> > changes about once every whenever they can think of something they want to
> > add.
> 
> I saw it primarily as a means of transition.  A lot of people have significant Windows-only apps
> or documents, etc. in a Windows-only format and getting to a Linux environment with Linux formats
> is not going to happen overnight.  It's important that we acknowledge that the transition takes
> time so that:
> 
> 1) We don't make people get frustrated when the transition period takes more than a day.
> 2) People don't format their Windows partition, lose access to legacy applications / data and get
> really frustrated and mad (at Linux and the people who gave them advice, both of which I have seen
> happen).
> ...
> 
> So all in all, I'm not suggesting we try to lure people over to Linux and let them continue to
> "pay through the nose for a crappy piece of software that gets major changes about once every
> whenever" as you put it Shaun.  I've always stood against that (see
> http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/potential.php ).  I'm trying to look at a means of helping that
> transition and to answer the (good) question of a Assitive Technology Practitioner at RESNA.
> 
> I hope that clarifies my question.
> 
> Best,
> 
> --JP
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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