Is Linux a desktop operating system?

Tom Adelstein adelste at yahoo.com
Sun May 29 23:44:02 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 15:39 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I wouldn't count on it.  ScanSoft is the Microsoft of speech 
> recognition.  They are acquiring lots of companies, eliminating choice, 
> and maximizing profits.  They have created a monopoly in the desktop 
> speech-recognition arena.  They're working towards creating a monopoly 
> in the telephony (i.e. small vocabulary, small grammar) 
> speech-recognition Arena.
> 
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> 
> --- eric
> 
> 

Eric, I suggest you write Richard Stallman about your issue since he can
do something about it. rms at gnu.org





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