On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Brian: > > These are very good points in your post. But there is another reason for > discussing this now, imho. Namely, design decisions made today might want > to comprehend the addition of a speech device which cannot, by its nature, > talk from the start. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seemsthis is an issue we > should air whether or not any software speech is wired in today or some > unknown tomorrow. future tomorrow day. > > So, to the issues you raise. Let me go backwards ... > > I'mfully in support of open source for numerous reasons I don't think > necessary to go into here. What I cannot support is the view, held by > some, that anything not open should be shunned. To me that argument is > just silly and awfully fundamentalist in a religious sort of way. I It's not silly! The problem is trying to make it work when you don't have the source. > suspect very few of us have exclusive GPL systems. I know I don't. It may never happen but I would sure enjoy life that way! FC For a free software world
