You beat me to it John, lol. Cheers Darren -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John SAVAGE Sent: 07 September 2011 10:15 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: An old chestnut Alex, you've overlooked a crucial word in Amie's post: "substandard". All contributors to this thread have made it clear that they're happy to pay a fair price for a good product. What pees us off is when FS slips below acceptable standards yet still charges us top whack. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Stone - CW" <Alex.Stone-CW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:52 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: An old chestnut > Amie, yes, but the logical extension of that argument is that > everything should be free and nobody should be expected to pay for (or > do) anything. > Cheers > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Amie Slavin > Sent: 06 September 2011 17:15 > To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: An old chestnut > > But I don't think I do need to put myself in their position. I'm a > customer, a consumer. It is for them to put themselves, as a > profit-making business, in my position. Even as a self-employed sole > trader I wouldn't dream of using my need for income as an excuse for > monopolising a captive market with a substandard product. Neither > would any of the business people of my acquaintance. It is for > businesses to serve customers; not the other way around. > Bang :o) (for Tom) > A > > -----Original Message----- > From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Graham Page > Sent: 06 September 2011 16:12 > To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: An old chestnut > > Amie yes I'm afraid you are rather going off on one. You need to put > yourself in the position of the manufacturer of the screenreader who > relies on the screenreader sales for income. > > Yes there are problems with the over all model. Yes I have problems > with some aspects of the way freedom scientific in particular chooses > to do business i.e. aggressive use of law suits. > It is interesting to note that while apple has developed its own > screenreader, there is also some suggestion at least that the next > version of windows 8 will have a more useful screenreader built in. > > I do hope that there will come a time when expensive screenreaders > that cost more than the hardware they run on will not be required as > they will be part of the operating system but if programmers and > technical support people have to live off the revenue of sales from a > screenreader it is likely to be expensive. > > Regards > > Graham > -----Original Message----- > From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Amie Slavin > Sent: 06 September 2011 14:24 > To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: An old chestnut > > For sure, just as I'm looking at JAWS 12. What a confounded rip-off > the whole racket is. > Well done us for not swearing (lol) when, yet again, confronted with > this very old chestnut, centring on blind people being an easy target > for those intent on making money out of tech sighted people would > laugh out of the water. > Anyway, here I go, off on one: chunter chunter chunter. > Thanks Tom, for pointing this out. 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