Re: Why I am not going to use JAWS

  • From: "Zdenek Vopat" <zdenekvopat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:43:54 +0100

what  screen readingg software are you going to use?
Zdenek

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Why I am not going to use JAWS


> Hi.
> I don't understand.
> Take care.
> 
> 
> Chris Hallsworth
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> On 21/12/2010 12:13, Zdenek Vopat wrote:
>> hello Chirss:
>> is thatsoftware that you are going to use and that is more stable NVDA?
>> Many thanks.
>> Zdenek
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "chris hallsworth"<christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:05 PM
>> Subject: Why I am not going to use JAWS
>>
>>
>>> Hello all.
>>> I will publicly state why I am refusing to use JAWS. It is Freedom
>>> Scientific's attitude towards pricing and their license schemes. Some of
>>> us can't or won't afford to buy JAWS, especially if the free one is just
>>> as good as JAWS. As for the license scheme, the user is punished to
>>> license JAWS on up to three machines. With the free and even other
>>> commercial screen readers one can install on as many computers as they
>>> have so long as one machine is used at a time, no questions asked. With
>>> JAWS, once all three authorizations have been used they would then have
>>> to request FS for more keys. Eventually and I will say eventually they
>>> will refuse flat and get paranoid about people sharing authorization
>>> keys. I understand piracy and all that and I certainly don't commit to
>>> any of that stuff however at the same time FS is just asking for money
>>> and not caring about the customer. True there is a dongle option, but
>>> even they can have their fair share of problems. Now for the technical,
>>> I do find the free one to be actually more stable and even works with
>>> more applications than JAWS. You may find this shocking but this is true
>>> according to my personal experience.
>>> Sorry for the rant but you did suggest I state publicly my reasons. So
>>> there you go.
>>> Take care.
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