Actually, that is not a bad idea all things considered. An open API that is standard regardless of OS would make life a lot easier for both the coders and users. Unfortunately, try convincing both Apple and Microsoft of this. Perhaps something like the UEFI consortium might work to get this to happen.

DE n7zzt Eric

On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Chuck Hast <kp4djt@gmail.com> wrote:

I think that this is one that the proprietary folks could take a

lesson from Open Source, I know several people who use

Chirp on Linux for the open screen reader interface. I think it

is time that those two groups stump up and write code that

will use the open API rather than force the Chirp coders to

code for their proprietary interfaces. They have enough on

their plates keeping up with all of the other stuff. Knowing 

that I have vision limited friends who happily use Linux for

the screen reader interface nulls that whole Chirp should

meet MS/Apple API's. Sorry but they either need to cut

bait or get off the dock.