Exactly Steve, and in a way both questions were answered. Greg's pointing out that the acb radio protocol is closed, naturally closed that issue entirely. The later comments about protocol now have me asking very specific questions about the airmedia setup in the hope of finding a work around here. I did not mean to suggest that the Jamania and Greg's pictures conflicted, just that they were different. difference does not equal conflict always, and not so here. Karen On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > To throw in another voice here, Karen asked two different questions. > The one about the text chat with Airmedia might be more easily > addressable with IRC clients and such. Have to find out what protocols > are supported over there. The "Our place" project at ACB Radio uses > Ivocalize which is a proprietary technology for which no linux > implementation was done. This is where Greg's comments come to light. > If the formats and protocols are kept secret and proprietary, then the > only way one could use it in linux is if the developers develop a Linux > version or share the specs so such a product could be built. Janina and > Greg's comments don't really conflict each other but see different > prospectives. One is the current reality that if a proprietary > technology is developed for windows only, then linux users can't use it. > If it were open and published, then Janina's remarks would apply in that > a compatible client could be developed for Linux. Of course, you > mentioned Skype; well, they were open minded enough to develop for all > major platforms - Linux, windows, and Mac. I wonder how accessible > Skype would be under Linux using Gnome accessibility with Gnopernicus. > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:25:12AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: >> Janina, >> >> Well said. I couldn't agree with you more. >> > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDHwJ2WSjv55S0LfERA2CXAKDcUS1lELfP5tb2ytXCL6+utoeYbQCg6GbR > wb3m4YXoB+jI+mfZbvqe8jo= > =13mZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >