It's about a war among players in industry and how much money they can
make by capturing market share. It's hard to justify free in that
context.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Carmickle" <frankiec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Speech vendors shout for standards.html
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
> I agree which is why I suggest that the fast track build on something
> other than msaa if they can. There are some telling remarks in the
> article and for lots of reasons, I hope vxml wins out. It is a good
> standard being that it is cross platform and open.
I am not sure really what this article was discussing. Living in a
world
where I only use freesoftware I don't tend to follow the big corporate
news unless it's hardware related. What is this project about and how
can
we as a community help them to understand the benefits of open standards
and freesoftware?
--
Frank Carmickle
phone: 412 761-9568
email: frankiec at dryrose.com
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