Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:16:01 +1100 From: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? Message-ID: <20000324091556.B40513@phoenix.welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200003231854.KAA01378@mass.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:54:43AM -0800 References: <14554.26052.433543.757976@hip186.ch.intel.com> <200003231854.KAA01378@mass.cdrom.com>
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all, On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:54:43AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Thank you Brad, this is the underlying point of my original message. I guess I > > didn't state it clearly enough. I wouldn't mind doing the above either. There > > have been mentions of "why doesn't somebody start a ``hardware for FreeBSD > > developer's fund''?" on these lists before. I don't really remember the > > details of the answers received--suffice to say that the jist of the answer > > was "we already use CD profit sales to buy hardware." > > No, that doesn't suffice. Donations to FreeBSD Inc. have always been > used for the best interests of the project; this includes buying hardware > as required or as incentives to developers that have put in stellar > efforts. pity this cannot include a few simple things like a text interface disabled people could use. or an easily managable (waste of resources, my personal opinion) gui. much is made of people getting thier hands dirty with makingcode work .. most genuinely disabled people have difficulty handling the keyboard letalone the complexities of coding. we as a rule have to rely upon the generiousity of others to get those very things that the "others", that is those upon whome we are forced to rely, take fro granted .. almost as thier god given right. so becaue we cannot code we cannot get because those of teh "others" cannot be bothered to find out whatit is that is required in the frst place, they as a class think that thier vague assumptions of what its like or what they thinkmight be required is no subsitute for geting intimate with a disabled person and finding out what the real problems are and how best to make the path easier to navigate. this in tern would produce significant benifits for the "abled body" majority. i'd givemy eye teeth to be able to write code, debug and build tools .. but i cannot and in all likelyhood will never be able to .. and so i will be forced to use the screen that i can afford that is slowly destroying my already severly damaged eye mucles. every bodies eye get tired, every bodies eye mucles get weak it would serve severybodies purrpose to have a relaible stable text screen driver that wold support 20line my 60 char, or 20x40 or 10 line by 70 char. i'm sure that taking the current state of the art and a few pokes here and thier a result could be had failrly quicly, or so itwas back when i was learning my trade and the state of teh art was a motorola mc68b09e and its comlimentry screen driver a mc?4481 or someting like that, its been over 25 years and my memory isnt what it used t be. trying as always jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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