Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed

[Janina Sajka]

I am under no obligation to answer any question you may think of. I have
explained why the 2.6.12 kernel is relevant to patching Speakup into the
current FC4 Redhat kernel. That's as far as I'm going with this.

Steve Dawes writes:
> It has nothing to do with RedHat's policies. It is simply the fact that you
> have made a statement about the kernel supplied with the latest
> distribution, and then you avoid fully answering any questions that spawn
> from your statement.
> 
> Oh yeah, another thing, if you want to use profanity in your messages to me,
> I don't mind. All I ask is that you spell it correctly. Damn has m n at the
> end of it and is not spelt with two m's. That said, there may be others that
> do mind, so be mindful to their feelings if you need to use them.
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Calgary Canada.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:39 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed
> 
> 
> It's quite clear you think Red Hat should have a different policy. Take
> it up with them. I really don't give a damm about that.
> 
> Dawes, Stephen writes:
> > Yes you have answered that portion of the question, but you refuse to
> answer the question about where in the rpm naming convention does it tell me
> where the level of patching is indicated. You have said that the kernel is a
> 2.6.11 kernel that has a number of patches that makes it appear to be a
> 2.6.12 kernel. So do you or don't you know where it tells this information
> in the rpm naming convention and where exactly it is located in the
> kernel-2.6.11-1.136_FC4.i686.rpm name.
> >
> > There is an old cliché that goes something like, "if it walks like a duck,
> looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck." Well, as I
> said a long while back, if it looks like kernel-2.6.12, and it acts like
> kernel 2.6.12, then don't call it something that it isn't as fedora has
> done.
> >
> > Janina, I have noticed something about the way in which you answer
> questions over the years. That is that you don't answer the entire question,
> but that you only answer the portion of the question that you feel like.
> This approach only provides partial information, and often is not what the
> requestor is looking for. You wrote that you maintain the fedora speakup
> modified howto, and for the work you do on this document it is good.
> However, your howto is only an installation document, and when people want
> to go beyond the information provided you start to get defensive and call
> their quest for information things like idle speculation. Janina, what is
> idle information is partial answers like the ones that you are in the habit
> of providing to peoples questions.
> >
> >
> > Steve Dawes
> > Phone: (403) 268-5527
> > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
> >
> >
> >
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> Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org