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Submission + - Linux for blind users (distrowatch.com) 1

Submitted by Dog's_Breakfast on Monday May 21, 2012 @07:50AM

Dog's_Breakfast writes: This week's edition of DistroWatch Weekly News features a unique story entitled "Linux Accessibility — What is it and Why Does It Matter?" The article was written by Robert Cole, a blind person with a computer science degree. Mr Cole points out that Linux offers an excellent set of free tools for seeing-impaired users. Putting together a similar set of tools on Windows would cost at least US$600, about double what a retail copy of Windows itself costs.

Submission + - Is Economic Collapse Good for Linux? (distrowatch.com)

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Dog's_Breakfast

on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:57PM

Dog's_Breakfast writes: "In a declining economy, software licenses become a luxury. Linux, and the BSDs, offer free alternatives. As the USA toys with the possibility of defaulting on its national debt (and thus risking economic collapse), the author wonders if this might not, at last, lead to "The Year of the Linux Desktop." However, in the world today, people in poor nations deal with the issue of high software prices simply by pirating Windows. On the other hand, those nations don't, as a rules, have a tradition of anti-piracy enforcement."

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