On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:34:29PM -0800, Peter Korn wrote: > This is definitely useful. But cost is not the only key > dimension/differentiator. Taking control of ones own destiny is > another. Jan Buchal has spoken eloquently on the free-as-in-freedom > aspects of open source accessibility.
Correct. Free as in freedom, as Richard Stallman puts it, is the most valuable aspect. I think there is more work to do among those committed to accessibility in shifting from advocacy to direct participation in the communities responsible for developing free and open-source software. Fortunately, there is much more such participation now than there was ten years ago, thanks to the efforts of many people; but this is one area in which there could still be further improvement. At a personal level, I don't enjoy advocacy work and tend to avoid it, which is why all of my contributions have been to standards committees and free and open-source software communities where everyone is collaborating to create a piece of software or a standard. This is a very different mode of participation from trying to convince corporations or governments to adopt (or, more often than not, retract) a policy. In essence, doing real development work is much more interesting than trying to persuade other people to do it. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
