[Remind-Fans] OT: Bad Apple! Bad! (was Re: Timed events)

[Dan D.]

Dianne,

Thanks, I agree completely on the thoughts in your blog entry.

I thought it hadsomething to do with the mac terminal as an shell 
environment which had some impact on how remind works..

As I have for decades, I work backwards to make hardware/software choices. 
First those computer tasks and ends of interest are identified and from 
that flow the decisions logically.  A cli environment is primary in that 
regard as I do most of my work there using existing ports.

As a blind computer user I needed the best screen reading approach and text 
to speech voice choices available and especially in a cli context, the gui 
is of little interest and used on a minority of tasks and only when forced 
to do so.  The many ports from the nix universe was a plus which are 
generally screen reader friendly.

Also I wanted the power apple script affords to modify the screen 
reader functionality a mac has to work as I wanted.

Without all the details those options in the linux world were for me not 
the logical first choice.  I use linux boxes with ssh acccess without 
hesitation.

I wouldn't touch windows with a 10 foot pole for the reasons you mention 
and its general lack of access to a useful screen reader at the cli and 
limited ;ports from the nix universe.

Thanks for the explanation with which I agree,

Dan


On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Dianne Skoll wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:31:50 -0500 (EST)
> "Dan D." <dandunfee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious about your thinking on the mac comment, can you expand
>> please.
>
> My anti-Apple stance is pretty well-known in open-source circles.
>
> http://dianne.skoll.ca/blog/2010-05-18-anti-apple.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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