This is overstated. The official statement by IBM that "development will cease" means only that IBM will cease development on it. LSR is open source (BSD license), so anybody can continue to work on it (disclaimers: I was an intern at IBM who worked on LSR long ago, and Will is generously employed by Sun to work on Orca).
Orca is great and is in active development, so it should absolutely be the first choice for a screenreader in linux. On the other hand, LSR does some really cool things that Orca cannot, so it's far from certain that it is forever dead. On 9/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Send Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Gnome-accessibility-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. LSR activities? (Michael Zacherle) > 2. Re: LSR activities? (Willie Walker) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:11:03 +0200 > From: Michael Zacherle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [g-a-devel] LSR activities? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi all, > > is there someone out still developing LSR, or is everybody using ORCA at > the moment? I know that the latest LSR version is from very early June, > and that at the LSR mailing list the latest mail has been created June > 19. > > Thanks, > > Michael > -- > > Dipl.-Phys. Michael Zacherle [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Studienzentrum f?r Sehgesch?digte Tel: +49-721-608.6951 > Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH) Fax: +49-721-608.2020 > Engesserstra?e 4, 76128 Karlsruhe > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature > Size: 3411 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : > /archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/attachments/20070914/2fc9ac75/attachment.bin > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:25:45 -0400 > From: Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [g-a-devel] LSR activities? > To: Michael Zacherle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi Michael: > > From > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2007-June/msg00000.html: > > "Development on LSR as a screen reader for GNOME will cease." > > Will > > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:11 +0200, Michael Zacherle wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > is there someone out still developing LSR, or is everybody using ORCA at > > the moment? I know that the latest LSR version is from very early June, > > and that at the LSR mailing list the latest mail has been created June > > 19. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > End of Gnome-accessibility-devel Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 > ******************************************************** > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
