ACS for Linux

[Hans Zoebelein <hzo goldfish cube net>]

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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 03:41:14 -0700
From: Michael Fair <michael775 cnmnetwork com>
To: hzo goldfish cube net
Subject: BLinux

Hello, I am a huge Linux advocate and had an idea that
could help the Blinux project significantly, and rather
than hold on to it until I could personally do something
about it, I wanted to at least let someone else get started
on it if they saw the same kind of possibility that I saw.

I couldn't find the address of someone more appropriate
to send this to, so I apologize if this letter should really
go to someone else.

It seemed to me that people who would like to access their
computers using only a phone as the terminal are the functional
equivalent to a blind person (except for the braille stuff).

Anyway, the reason that's significant is that their is
a lot of funding for software that helps out road warriors.

BLinux could get a major funding boost, address
increasing blind awareness, and solve many corporate
communication problems, if it started targeting some
of its efforts in the the digital assistant world, thinking
that all the end user has is a cel phone in thier hands.

If BLinux worked with the guys doing the ACS (Adjunct
Communication Server) project you could probably have
a commercialable product based on service fees which
would allow more funding of Blinux projects.

Anyway, I didn't want to sit on the idea although I can
do nothing about it right now I wanted to at least get the
word out, in case someone else could.

-- Michael --