To be fair it must be recognized that you're asking for more than a particular kind of communication. To me it sounds like you're not asking for chat, but rather for chat using some particular proprietary protocol/format. Such tactics are time honored methods of monopolists. Consider that 100 years ago you might need multiple telephones in your home, one from each phone company, to call anyone in your city. That's right. The early phone company didn't let you call it's competitors customers. If that sounds strange, quaint and archaic, there will be quite a few people on this list who will remember the early days of email when the customer of Compuserve could not send email to the customer of Delphi, nor could either of these customers send to a customer of the company called The Source (which grew up to be AOL). Can you chat on LInux? Of course you can, text and audio. You can even set up your own phone company and for a few dollars, or on a per call basis, interface to every telephone on the planet. Can you do so with every proprietary protocol someone might try to impose? Possibly, but not necessarily. Perhaps, Karen, your association people have never considered how they are helping enforce the profits of a monopolist. Maybe they might want to think about that and switch to something that supports choice, not conformity. Karen Lewellen writes: > Yes, which I have already done. Now I am trying to learn if it can be > done via Linux. > I need to be able to take part live. > And some here suggest that there is little if anything that cannot be done > in windows that cannot be done better in Linux. > I am not a windows user so want to learn if this theory is true. > > Thanks, > Karen > > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Farhan wrote: > > >couldn't you ask the people that host this chat to see if it can be > >accessed by an irc client, then that way you could read it? > > > >on9/6/2005Karen Lewellen said > >I understand. > >What about the other situation, the airmedia.org one? > >in that case it is not audio chat, but text chat, though the client is > >java based. > >I can learn which one specifically if this better insures a detailed > >answer. this is actually more important, as it is work related. > > I need not visit the ourplace chat to know that most there will likely be > >leading with their vision challenge anyway, and make the conversation > >rather unenlightening. > >Karen > > > >On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>I would like to be corrected, but I'm afraid that Gabe is right, and > >>that you can't use speak freely, or anything under gnu/linux > >>here. You'll have to use the other popular M$$ operating system. Maybe > >>mozila under gnome would work, but that's a very slightly educated guess. > >> > >>Greg > >> > >> > >>On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:52:22PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Greg, > >>> that was not what i meant, as to using anything i meant go anywhere you > >>> wish > >>> and be able to use speak freely. > >>> I am going to post the invitation, or some of it below. the question is > >>> would there be a way entirely in Linux, to join this specific chat at > >>> this > >>> location if i so wished? > >>> take note of the specific step by step instructions provided. > >>> > >>> Karen > >>> > >> > >>- -- > >>web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > >>gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > >>skype: gregn1 > >>(authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > >> > >>- -- > >>Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >>Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >> > >>iD8DBQFDHgW47s9z/XlyUyARAlECAJ9GL3JiF83vtzDnVCEG8IjJz0jU4ACdFHZo > >>7QDozzwezmQIB6HowTrgIKo= > >>=dcal > >>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
