SMA policy was: JAWS update now available

I'm afraid the SMA policy is worse than what you describe. If you choose not to 
keep your SMA current, and then one day you decide to buy a SMA so you can 
upgrade to the latest JAWS update, Freedom Scientific will demand that you pay 
for all of the SMAs that you failed to purchase. In other words, if you did not 
buy an SMA that covered JFW versions 7 and 8, and then wanted to upgrade to JFW 
version 9, they would require you to pay for a SMA that covered JFW versions 7 
and 8, and also pay for the SMA covering JFW 9 and 10. They don't care if 
versions 7 and 8 were buggy or that you did not download them, you are expected 
to pay for those previous SMAs. I experienced this situation when a couple of 
versions of JFW were incompatible with the Windows Sticky-keys utility I have 
to use, due to being one-handed. I couldn't use two versions of JFW because of 
this bug, but FS still demanded I pay for the SMA covering those unusable 
versions before I could get the SMA for the latest version in which the bug was 
fixed.

Alan

Blake wrote:
I'm afraid it doesn't matter whether you install an upgrade or not. If you
buy an SMA, you're entitled to two consecutive upgrades.

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