Re: JAWS, authorization & free markets

amen
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From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: JAWS, authorization & free markets


> Hi Listers,
>   While Freedom Scientific is not guiltless in their approach to their
> customer base, there is no justification for circumventing the
> authorization system because two wrongs do not and never have made a
> right.
>   As the general populous becomes more and more illiterate hardware and
> software manufacturers will continue to make more and more things speak
> because folks just can't read. Cars talk to tell you of problems, VCRs
> speak to you, cameras speak to tell you some basic information,
> refrigerators hook to the internet to provide information to the
> "housewife" and so on.
>   Cast your memory back to when a few libraries had the magic machine
> which would read a book and cost more than $32,000 in 1969 dollars.
> Today you can purchase the same capability for under $1,600 or so in
> 2003 dollars. What would $1,600 be in 1969 dollars? Maybe $800?
>   There will come a day when you can purchase the JAWS like ability for
> under $100. You can get the ability to reliably scan a document for
> under $100 today. Sure, it does not have all of the bells and whistles
> of some select market software but it is affordable to those of us who
> do not have the luxury of having our hardware and software provided to
> us by some governmental agency.
>   Thanks for all of the valuable tips and hints I have gotten from the
> List this year. Wishing all of you a most profitable and peaceful New
> Year. CYS...
>
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