Actually the accessibility software in question works *in spite* of
Microsoft. David Berlind's blog talks about that in more detail, but like
most other third party software, it is dependent on undocumented APIs and
every MS upgrade breaks something. Wasn't documenting the APIs part of
one of the punishements from the MS vs DOJ cases?
The vendors of accesibility software would have an easier time developing
for the various open source packages including OpenOffice.org because of
the documentation. The end users would certainly benefit from the
increased stability.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote:
[...]
Microsoft is playing the a11y card, because that is the only way it
can be viewed as the underdog by the general public, and the only way
they will force ma to reject the technologically better solution, is
to appear to be the underdog.
[...]
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