[ Thanks to Marco
Fioretti for this link. ]
“I recently wrote an article about the serious communication
problems between the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community and
disabled users…“My article has been both attacked and praised on many mailing
lists. It has also been criticized on Groklaw, because I would be
out of the loop and discussed on Slashdot. I have a few quick
comments about this, and above all a proposal for all FOSS
supporters worldwide.“First of all, the world is much bigger than Massachusetts, or
USA for that matter. The stories I reported show that it is the
majority of disabled people to still be, or be left, out of the
loop…”
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