This also answers my question, and makes sense. On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Aaron Howell wrote: > Its simple really, > This wasn't at all an attack on redHat, it was a simple statement of fact. > Speakup _isn't_ part of the default kernel yet, and to the best of my knowledge, its only thus far made it as far as alan Cox's test kernels. > Nothing that could in any way harm the stability of RH Advanced Server has any hope of getting into their kernel. > Unlike the situation with the generic RedHat operating system, this is a good and necessary thing. > The reason being that commercial vendors have spent countless amounts of time testing their software to make sure it functions correctly with the RH Advanced Server kernel, > and to change the kernel in any significant way, (and I dare say RH would consider Speakup to be a significant way) > Would invalidate much of that testing. > Of course every time there's a re-release of RH Advanced server, the validation needs to be re-done against the whole operating system, but the chances of getting something as major as speakup included in an incremental kernel upgrade aren't particularly good. > it, like most other technologies, will probably spend quite a bit of time in either the main linux kernel, or the RedHat modified kernel before it is considered for inclusion in Advanced Server. > This isn't a slight on people with a disability, its a necessary evil to keep AS in a sane state, and RedHat has too much invested in it to not do so. > Yes, I disagree with much of what redHat's done wrt disability support, but in this case they have a good business case for not acting too hastily.
