disability access via speech recognition

Eric S. Johansson writes: XEmacs itself *is* free software, and I think most project members would fight for that principle. However, Stallman's "sabotage anything that might get in the way of a world that is 100% free software" approach (which reminds me of the Leninist principle of "immiseration of the masses" -- but I digress) is not accepted here. Most of us are more likely to contribute to your work to the extent that it's based on free software vs. proprietary, yes, but to the extent that you do the work we're happy to have it. In fact, in the past Ben Wing and Jerry James have worked with proprietary speech recognition software if I'm not mistaken (but they're not active at this point, although I think Jerry reads this list). We have no objection in principle, but note that you do need to keep that proprietary stuff on the other side of the "exec barrier" because of the GPL. Eg, you can't link XEmacs to a "Naturally Speaking" library. (Well, as a legal fine point *you* can link to anything you want, but you can't give it to anyone else unless it's 100% GPL, not even in pure source form. :-( ) You need to use some form of interprocess communication such as shared memory or TCP/IP or Berkeley sockets. I have sympathy, but no time at present, and when I do get time I'll have to apply it to release management for old code, not development of new code. But I'd like to contribute in the medium term. That would suck. Please, try working with XEmacs. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta