Speakup in kernel

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Wed Oct 22 17:39:38 UTC 2003


On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:

>> Oh, it's clear RH has no intention. What is now also clear is that the
>> reasoning is highly suspect. In fact, prejudicial against persons with
>> disabilities. Not hard to make that case from this thread.
>
>This is a joke, right?
>
>In the end, redhat owns their distribution, and they will include what
>they want, and not include what they don't want to.  I really doubt that
>whining will change this as much as creative suggestions.  Nothing is
>stopping anyone from installing a speakup kernel.
>
>I applaud every effort to support those with disabilities, but coming on
>the mailing list to try to force redhat's hand?  It just isn't going to
>happen.

Red Hat very much supports those with disabilities, and Section 
508 compliance is a very important thing to Red Hat.

That means that accessibility features are important to us, and 
that we will investigate various accesibility features/software 
out there for technical review for potential inclusion into the 
distribution.  Like _ALL_ software that we review for possible 
inclusion into the distribution however, we have high standards, 
and if any software does not meet our standards, it may very well 
be rejected on technical grounds.

People are free to invent conspiracy theories however if that is 
what they wish to do.



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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat





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