OK, Patrick, you now have, and Thomas has all along, implied that you had
knowledge of all of RH's complaints with Speakup. How 'bout sharing them
with the group? I know what the answer to this question was last week,
Kirk, but for this week: has anyone at Red Hat Incorporated sent you any
bug reports, or, better yet, patches?
--
Bill in Denver
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Patrick Turnage wrote:
> Hello
> I think that RH has a really good reason for keeping speakup out of the
> kernel at this time. They have some valid complaints about it and when
> those are addressed it probably will end up in the distribution again.
> I do think if you want to take the RHCE exams they should be a little more
> occomidating.
> They have the right to make whatever policy they want with regard to their
> exam documentation but a NDA is a binding contract between RH and the
> person taking the exam.
> If you want to write to RH it should be to ask them to attempt to develop
> policies that allow disabled persons to take part in their training
> matterial and to have some equal or as close to equal access during the
> RHCE exams..
> Oh on another note.. I had a computer wqith windows XP. It for some reason
> did not boot.. I took a standard slack root disk and a custom kernel and
> loadlin put it on a cd and connected my usb hard drive and backed up all
> my data.. Linux is flexible it has saved me more times thatn I can even
> count.. Once I used Linux on a zip drive for a month while my notebook's
> hard drive was off being repaired. With a little customization only booting
> was the issue.. Of course after a month of use that zip disk stopped
> working but still.
> I see all these MCSE's walking around my college campus and when I talk to
> them about Linux for access to hard drives that have failed they just say
> they don't use it.. I'm glad I learned it and to anybody who is just
> begining to explore Linux your doing yourself a favor..
> sincerely,
> Patrick
>
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