Lets not criticize people for merely asking for a status report. If somebody is going to be beligerent about it that would be something else. But I don't think there is anything wrong with politely asking for a status report. After all, it would be a good thing if even fairly non-technical people could use speakup and those kind of users are not in a position to contribute to the project. To me, that only highlights what a great service the developers are providing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 5:05 AM Subject: Re: Speakup's future >I think what is happening here is that there are plenty of users and not > enough coders. > If more people were working on speakup than Kirk and a few friends then it > would develop faster. > Unfortunately 100 or 200 users asking what the deal is won't cause any > development. > People are usually motivated by money or desire or whatever; so perhaps > getting more programmers to work on speakup by taking donations from users > would help the cause. > The kernel folks aren't that interested in speakup; they have other > priorities and there just aren't programmers working on the code to keep > pace with the kernels. > > Keep in mind that all comercial screen readers develop faster because they > have paid programmers. > > nvda thunder gnopernicus and the like are all developing slowly due to a > lack of fulltime paid programming tallent. > > Perhaps with this new wave of ultra-mobile pcs such as the Asus eeepc and > the like; more people will work on speakup in order that we may have > access > to this platform. > > Sadly; free software is used by a lot of people but only developed by a > few. > > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garrett Klein" <garrettklein at comcast.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:40 PM > Subject: Speakup's future > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Hello all, >> >> What is the future of speakup? Kirk? Anyone? Is the git >> repository going to sit there and collect dust? I need speakup >> since yasr just sucks and I don't trust gnome-terminal to >> everything. Speakup 3.0 with 2.6.22.15 was a no-go for me with >> "no such device" errors when modprobing speakup_dectlk. >> >> So, what's going to happen to our beloved Speakup? >> >> Garrett >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJHd3WxAAoJEDH5wg/gDs13rOEP/ijjH/ZDC54RHTWvXdNCLGAG >> RUmxgXxNohOIXD4bdAue7rOMmtW1JKbvVvgi6z68JD5k+T9Mqcoa/Fas0YccLtoo >> 0eDHp6RWg4ResWhiQHQNNLAosOVNZZ6q0I1L4IxzZBVvhEHGUbDMCUbKpL5MKVBA >> JrYWK//MxFFvJMecDJpmZfaLjArpiIr4iE6yQ3qT9Tl5X8k3V6yV7+Ds05b/eWNE >> YrUgmiusTkP+PY4/MqyX+a0LCwC00/crXiG0w4SrEb7s4Nuo5iTz2HVzTg0kb/ek >> Y3np7RE1G60DBHkvXPOlC4EHamqNuwZhrLvoEc+/uIO54eDoxcBO8qUciMJRJrCb >> T6ErTfGLQe65AYTJeHD4tr13Ex5BmVi9HQPZZuCnW3aHvM+dYvtZSv8VC/aawbM5 >> CY26ygFcgBa0JPOqx5Qt0+dPy6Qy3meJ0RMmWYZ5uxU9TJo1k4ZjV6/1LfvzLMEO >> ih1YpK2e9cRNUMt5CqEpNm+l7ItGcJLrTFMjruAPIIdKyF6dT+jDlsx4/eoUKCkw >> Jf+k7QuYLktkkxVvQjd5mje+Mch+PWN1Z5W3l8JMTa5VfcgOmgvdEBIsFgAplCfz >> Zvg9Euedgvl05YtzxfYE4E9Eg6ikjaWqSrvJPtEPlWrS9y6TQeEAaJdUogCOwy5f >> VCVWtrRDZRzcPQwS6RlV >> =kWGU >> -----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 > >