Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/13:17:12
In article <Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970202101702 DOT 5878c-100000 AT capslock DOT com>,
mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca writes
>On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Ian 'DrDebug' Day wrote:
>
>> In article <Pine DOT NXT DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970201194236 DOT 14483S-100000 AT eagle1>,
>> jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com writes
>> >So long as opendos documents and supports writing that will work
>> >with speech synthesizers by means of switches and doesn't require a
>> >mouseto work parts of it it should be able to be used by anyone and
>> >not risk violating the Americans With Disabilities Act.
>> >Failure to do this, combined with a business requiring
>> >the operating system to be used by all employees could potentially
>> >cause problems of an indirect legal nature. The first ones would be for
>> >the company, and the second ones would be the negative
>> >publicity coming out of such a case with opendos mentioned
>> >prominently. Anyone on this list who has read the
>> >A.D.A. probably knows the relevant sections.
>>
>> Which is basically what I said. Even after my initial state, I was
>> thinking about how to best set up the option configuration.
>>
>> I'm not famuliar with the A.D.A (as I'm in the UK), but I'm all for it
>> as I'm sure it's probably quite sensible. Of course, and submissions I
>> made to Caldera for OpenDOS would no doubt be subject to American law
>> before THEY could let it out.
>>
>> But, as I've said, it'll be optional and won't change a thing unless you
>> want it to.
>
>Ahh, so I was correct in my assumptions as to your real intentions.
>Some people are just too sensitive! Don't you hate legal mumbo-jumbo
>being thrown at you? Especially when you live in a different country.
<FX: Ducks and whistles 'Rule Brittania'>
I'd never even heard of the thing... ;-)
But yes, I'd never just willy nilly rip things out of it that *I*
thought were useless (no matter how much I was tempted).
DrDebug
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