With due respect, needing a second computer to be able to access the
features of another is NOT access nor is it cost effective. That's like
saying in order to drive this car you need to be steering from one next to
it. Besides, EMACSpeak, which is the Linux speech program does not need two
computers. It, like Linux, is free.

For all it's faults, at least you only need one computer to access Windows.
Now, if the Windows weren't broken...

Gary Drennan
& Gage, the Wonder Dog
 :-)  &   ,__/>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Siegel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: State of Access to Linux


> Linux is 100% accessible to anyone using a speech synthesizer.  The only
> stipulation to get this 100% accessibility is that you need to use a
> second computer as your access point to linux.  Using your machine that
> already has speech on it, simply log into linux via serial port, and
> you're instantly speech enabled for the entire linux operating system.
> You can't run X applications, but that's no loss at all, since I've not
> found a single yet that I can't do with a command line utility.  Linux is
> accessible, and because of it's nature, will remain that way unless
> companies like redhat have their way, since in that case, they are not
> interested in the traditional user, only in the person sitting at the
> keyboard of the main console of the machine.  This is a bad approach,
> because although it allows certain assumptions to be made, it drastically
> limits the capabilities of what linux can do.  I.E. if you assume every
> user is going to be sitting at the main console keyboard, then why would
> you need multiple simultaneous logons? It hasn't gotten to this point yet,
> but I see it heading that direction in the future.  But as it stands now,
> linux is accessible, and it works with 100% of software providing it isn't
> an x application.
>
>
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