which program in Linux?

[Gregory Nowak]

Just to clarify my previous post, I am not attempting to give gnu/linux a bad spin, I simply consider myself to be a realist, and not a dreamer about what some unknown future holds.

Greg

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>From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:08:39 -0700
>Subject: Re: which program in Linux?

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>To throw in another voice here, Karen asked two different questions.
>The one about the text chat with Airmedia might be more easily
>addressable with IRC clients and such.  Have to find out what protocols
>are supported over there.  The "Our place" project at ACB Radio uses
>Ivocalize which is a proprietary technology for which no linux
>implementation was done.  This is where Greg's comments come to light.
>If the formats and protocols are kept secret and proprietary, then the
>only way one could use it in linux is if the developers develop a Linux
>version or share the specs so such a product could be built.  Janina and
>Greg's comments don't really conflict each other but see different
>prospectives.  One is the current reality that if a proprietary
>technology is developed for windows only, then linux users can't use it.
>If it were open and published, then Janina's remarks would apply in that
>a compatible client could be developed for Linux.  Of course, you
>mentioned Skype; well, they were open minded enough to develop for all
>major platforms - Linux, windows, and Mac.  I wonder how accessible
>Skype would be under Linux using Gnome accessibility with Gnopernicus.