Is Linux a desktop operating system?

Tom Adelstein adelste at yahoo.com
Sat May 28 16:18:22 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 07:41 +0100, paul cooke wrote:

> I just wish IBM would get off their butts and resurrect ViaVoice or at least 
> donate it to the OSS community... my old copy that came with Mandrake 8 pro 
> ran fine... but that was yonks ago and they dropped it not long after.
> 
> That's what I really hate about closed source programs... when the producer 
> drops it... you're stuffed when you want to carry on running it on a more 
> recent version of OS or a service pack breaks it.
> 

Paul,

IBM transferred their voice technology products to Scansoft. Scansoft is
a commercial software company and if the demand surfaced, I can see them
porting a lot of software to Linux.
http://www.scansoft.com/






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