Fw: Calling non Windows users

[John covici]

I understand its going to be a java applet or something like for
other platforms, so I am not sure what it will do.

on Wednesday 10/06/2004 Gregory Nowak(greg at romuald.net.eu.org) wrote
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 > According to speak freely's original author, it has already been left
 > in the dust, which is why he discontinued developing and supporting it
 > in January of this year.
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 > Greg
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:24:24PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
 > > Hi all,
 > > 
 > > Well, David, if Ivocalize is going to Linux, it can't very well work
 > > with only IE, now can it?  I have no idea what the techies are
 > > planning, but I'll tell you this, my friend.  If they manage to port
 > > this system over to Linux, then I suggest that Speak-freely better rev
 > > itself up or it's going to be left in the dust!  The ability of a web
 > > based client to incorporate audio, web and text chat is phenomenal.  
 > > 
 > > Now as far as Braille goes, the text chat is accessible, so, why
 > > couldn't somebody access that via braille.  They'd be smart to put
 > > hooks in the thing for BrlTTY.  
 > > 
 > > If you want total text chat, then MOO is still your best bet there,
 > > David.  You can't beat MOO.  The messenger clients are fine, but MOO
 > > allows for more, and it can be made web accessible.  
 > > 
 > > Speak freely has none of these features, folks.  You can't control its
 > > volume from within the program.  You can't push web pages, you can't
 > > record.  You can't moderate rooms and have people queued and so on.
 > > You can't raise your hand, none of this is now possible in Speak
 > > Freely. 
 > > 
 > > Look, guys, I like Linux just as well as all of you do, but for my
 > > needs, Ivocalize works just fine!  Yes it's a Windows based thing, but
 > > it does what it's supposed to do, and I don't know any other client in
 > > Linux that does everything this one does. 
 > > 
 > > Ann P.
 > > 
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