Baseless speculating on mailing lists rarely yields positive results. James has said more than a few times that this list is not for venting about FS as a company. If you want to put forward some facts about why FS does what they do, that's one thing. But I respectfully suggest that to speculate based on opinions or gripes does not help anyone.
Bruce -- Bruce Toews Proud JAWS User Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: bruce@xxxxxxxx LiveJournal: http://masterofmusings.livejournal.com Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Gerald Levy wrote:
Jumping to a whole new version of JAWS is most likely a marketing ploy by FS to justify the cost of extending one's SMA. After all, if they released these changes as version 9.1, users would be less inclined to shell out the extra bucks for the upgrade. Nobody seems to know who really owns FS, but there are rumors floating around that it is actually owned by an investment group based inn Dubai, United Arab Emirs which may be pressuring management in this country to release new versions of JAWS on a regular cycle.----- Original Message ----- From: "Kamal Haffar" <haffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:16 PM Subject: Jaws v10Hi all: I am surprised that FS is releasing this version is v10, as the way I see it, the changes are nice and very useful but in my opinion not significant enough to jump to a whole new version. I recall in many previous versions FS has included more break throughs and features. I am not trying to compare products here by any means, but I want to use the example of GwMicro upgrade path from Window Eyes 6.1 to 7.0 where the upgrade has introduced a significant break through for their product. If I did not have an SMA already, I would have probably waited to another version before I pay to upgrade from v9.0 to v10.00. I don't mean this as a negative criticism but rather as a feedback from a long time euser of Jaws, in fact my serial number is a four digit one. Cheers, kamalThis is meant as a positive criticiswiated -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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