Hello Travis: If the machine is intended to be open source then we will certainly help port speakup to it providing we can get access to a unit or two for development work. I cannot check out the baen bar site because it is heavily javascript based and I've tried to sign up to it at least a dozen times with no luck. I've written baen about that and have heard absolutely nothing back from them about access to the bar. I have heard from them on the general tendency of their web pages moving to javascript and they have not been understanding. Basically they just said oh well. One would think if you were willing to provide them more funding they'd at least talk but they weren't even interested when I wanted to join their baen book club so I'm sceptical how interested anyone around there may be to provide open source solutions. I hope I'm wrong but I haven't had much luck so far. I realize they provide their books free to blinks but honestly five bucks a book is not unreasonable and I've purchased dozens of them before they became free. They have loads of good material so it would be nice to have access to the machines but even better to have general access to their full site which they are not interested in providing it seems. Maybe because it is a separate company they'll be more flexible. If they are going the open source route there's hope for them at least. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
