Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!

  • From: "Kerri" <shalom75@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 20:13:50 -0700

Freedom scientific is the company who makes jaws.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yadiel" <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:16 AM
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Hello everybody:


I have heard a lot of mention about the FS law suits... Would anyone care to explain what they are and what are the reasons for them?


Yadiel

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From: "Cy Selfridge" <cyselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:24 AM
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Subject: RE: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!

Farfar, wash out your mouth. (LOLLOLLOL)
Stuck with ME, God forbid. (LOL)
Cy, The Anasazi

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Farfar Carlson
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:56 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!

Well, not to digress even more off topic, but I have to suggest that
Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 was driven less by user complaints of Vista
than by the competition being offered by Apple. If Microsoft had a
non-competitive market, we'd still be stuck with Windows ME.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- From: "Armond" <armond1980@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 21:26
Subject: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!


Well, guys, whether or not JAWS has been or is tremendously helpful to the visually impaired is simply beyond the point. No one can or should deny the fact that JAWS has been helping thousands of users in a variety of context. However, that doesn't mean the follies of its developers should be ignored.
That would be like, say, having ignored Windows Vista's multitudinous
problems and headaches simply because Microsoft has been developing
different permutations of Windows for so long. On the other hand, what we
now call a positive experience, or simply a better experience, with Windows 7 is the direct consequence of user complaints and taking into account those
glitches. Now who can deny the usefulness of Windows? On a similar topic,
isn't iPhone a revolutionary product with its full-fledged screen reader,
helping many visually impaired people all over the world with its cornucopia of apps and functions? But this doesn't prevent users from complaining about
rather serious antenna issues with the 4th generation of iPhones.
Likewise, when we simply state that Freedom Scientific is moving in the
wrong direction with its approach toward beta testing and bug handling--and I don't want to mention the issue of the frequency of major upgrades which unnecessarily kill SMA licenses, it doesn't mean that we excoriate the whole
history of JAWS from the HJ days forward. Rather, it's just meant to keep
both the user community and, hopefully, the developers aware of the issues
which have beleagured JAWS. As for this particular bug, why should people
buy extra language packs when Unicode support in combination with a TTS
engine can do the job? And this has been the case for some years and is
still the case with other screen readers which support Unicode. And, last
but not least, this has nothing to do with international sanctions against a
particular country; rather, it's a totally technical issue as, say, Arab
countries aren't under any particular sanctions whatsoever. Imagine having to purchase JAWS language packs from certain dealers in order to be able to
read and write in Russian, Greek, and Polish.

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