REPOST : Open Letter To Ryan Commerson
Ryan Commerson,
Responding to:
You’re complaining about TRS companies exploiting the deaf community? The fact is you all asked for it, you all let it happen.
I’m the one that discovered that the AOL’s AIM service can be used for a TRS protocol.
Go look at the birth date, “Member Since”, of AOL’s OCDACRelay AIM name in the image below.
May 31, 2002 at 1:26 pm at Pacific time
That’s when I discovered it. That’s when I started experimenting with it as relay service for the deaf people.
Did the deaf community cherish it? No They pooh poohed it saying its ‘not going to work’, ‘a crazy idea’, and a bunch of other demeaning responses. Years later AIM relay companies started popping up. Hearing people got the credit because you all let them get it. If I was allowed to get the credit, I’d use the resources and revenue to protect deaf people’s ideas from exploitation by the hearing people.
You all looked the other way instead.
You all set the ground for exploitation by hearing people.
Now the exploitation you’re complaining about is all from you people because you all let it happen in the first place.
Richard Roehm
What is your point with the Open Letter to Ryan Commerson? Some of us do get tired of small pager with AIM with not comfortable little buttons. Sometimes we do use AIM Relay service in case if emergency. Not all Deaf people do say oh pooh pooh pooh on AIM Relay!
So chill down, RR !! Why again with your “RE POST” ? Are you STILL upset with Ryan Commerson f
Lots use AIM TRS through their office computers, laptops, at their workplaces and homes.
ok, RR. Are you still upset with Ryan Commerson? Why repost your vlog?
I feel there needs to be more educating going on on the ways of the deaf community. I will repost this again once a while to remind people of bad deaf deeds in this particular situation.
They stole your idea Richard. How do you plan to punish them for letting that happen?