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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