Remember, Linux is free and there are many other distributions except for RedHat. I myself am fond and a user of RedHat, but if they start fiddling around with accessibility and turning Open Source OS into AOL OS, I guess I will have to drop RedHat. On the same note, GNOME Foundation and SUN are working on accessibility hooks within an upcoming GNOME 2.0, which hopefully will revolutionize our access to GUI in Linux. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? > I wish I could be as optimistic. Actually, we will have to demand > that they keep the command line text runtime or they will simply do the > migration thing where the GUI is updated and the text is > forgotten. Witness the disappearance of DOS. > > -- Charlie. > > >Linux already comes with a GUI, but it can safely be ignored. > > > >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > > > > > but of course, it won't be accessible because they'll slap a gui on it > > > and lock it in. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
