Re: To be M$ free....

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-28 09:08:01, schrieb Anthony Campbell: > On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: > > There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) > > appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not > > actually abandoned won't compile with newer versions of com

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:18 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable >

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable > price, once it was scriptable the price increased by more tha

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Joe
Ron Johnson wrote: There seem to be a few OCR projects in the Debian repository. Don't know how good they are, though. As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with large, clear characters. Whi

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 03:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: > > [snip] > >> There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) >> appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not >> actual

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) > appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not > actually abandoned won't compile with newer versions of compilers or > newer versions of glibc or both.

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:39 -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > > > >>This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > >>that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > >>being "stuck" with it. Here is

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > >>This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM >>that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about >>being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than > Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. No, M$ is

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 01:51, Mike McCarty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM >>> that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about >>> being "stuck" with it. Here is a

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. Er, when wasn't it a

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than > Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. Er, when wasn't it ackowledged?

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: If she really needs VR, then she's stuck with MS Windows. Er, well, maybe not. Is there a chance that OSX would give her what she needs? I know it isn't free (speech/beer) but IMHO it is a step closer. I mean it isn't Microsoft and it is based on F

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > If she really needs VR, then she's stuck with MS Windows. Er, well, maybe not. Is there a chance that OSX would give her what she needs? I know it isn't free (speech/beer) but IMHO it is a step closer. I mean it isn't Microsoft and it is based on FreeBSD. --

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/07 13:54, Don Hayward wrote: > Hi, > > I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system > dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is > partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent. S