[BRLTTY] Windows support

[Michael Whapples]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:23 -0500, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> >My intention is to feed the library with plain text.
> 
> Sounds like you're going to write another screen reader. Is this really 
> necessary? You'd mostly be reinventing  the wheel. It might be less fun but 
> more useful to join one of the existing projects. Lots of people going off 
> in all directions at once strikes me as inefficient.
> There's two ways to look at people doing their own projects which may duplicate existing projects. Yes it might be inefficient, but by having many trying to achieve the same goal, they may come up with different ways to do it and the various techniques may be preferable to different people, and these different approaches will test the accessibility APIs more thoroughly.

I don't know which side I would come down on, but I think there is some
usefulness in having multiple approaches, but there again too many
different projects possibly don't add much more than a few with bigger
development teams.

One example of duplicated or at least very similar work, is the Linux
distribution. There are so many out there, you probably would have
thought are they all needed, but when you look closer at them, there is
a good one for about every situation (eg. GRML for portability, ubuntu
for ease of use, slackware for a moderately clean system with the main
things included, oralux for beginner accessibility, etc). It just comes
down to user choice.