Remember, it's not in GW Micro's interest to say anything positive about native accessibility. They can't afford as a business for Apple to become popular just like a CF can't afford the IPhone to become popular etc.
Instead of differentiating themselves and coexisting they have to bank of fear and disinformation to promote their cause. On Sep 2, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote: > Hi guys > I personally am a big fan of the mac. I also really like vinux3.0 based on > Ubuntu. Orca is coming along nicely and its nice to use ubuntu to legally and > freely turn my pc into a mac which talks out of the box and for $5 I get > voxin to use with it. I am disappointed that gwmicro did not even mention the > fact linux distributions such as vinux and knoppix-adriane and grml exist. > One of the reasons I like vinux is because it pretty much turns any pc into a > macLike computer with the same or better security and stability just as the > mac has on it. With vinux I just plug in my braille display and it works, usb > and passport drives show up as icons on the desktop. There's no safely remove > hardware. it has a calculator, dictionary, web browser, at least two email > programs, a ful office suite including powerpoint, and that's just scratching > the surface. If you install emacs you get the gnome desktop plus the emacs > audio desktop with voxin. You can use both console and graphical modes. Don't > want to remember tons of commands? then don't worry about it, you can just > copy and paste commands into the terminal. Vinux only needs 384 mb to 512mb > of ram to run. if you plan on using vmware player and windows7 then get at > least 3gb of ram. win-xp and win98 need much much less ram. I love my mac and > I love vinux3.0 equally! GwMicro doesn't seem to want to really acknowledge > apple, or NVDA, or serotek, or vinux or grml or knoppix-adriane at all. > > Josh Kennedy > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
