On 10/23/07, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, check "Low cost software for visually impaired" http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/oct/23linux.htm
i find this article to absolutely disgusting as ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION has been made of the GNU, or the Gnome Project both of which are responsible for the Orca project being there in the first place.
Lets consider the example of a laptop. A tech magazine is bound to cover aspects of the laptop such as size, processor, memory, storage, wifi, etc. This will give more or less full justice to whatever has gone behind the making of the laptop.
A fashion mag on the other hand will only talk about how *cool* the laptop looks, how it is a chick magnet, how eyeballs will follow it wherever you go (sony vaio?) and how 'everyone who is anyone' owns one and hence, you should too.
The point is that the article featured in "Rediff Money", so it's no wonder that the journalist chose to highlight the monetary aspect of the software. I understand that it is sacrilege according to you and many others that the mukti aspect was not highlighted; even I feel the free aspect should have been atleast mentioned, if not elaborated. But if you see the theme of the medium, you'll see why it didn't really happen the way you wish it should have.