It is the same thing which happens when selling a car or a house. One
just can't transfer title to either without paying transfer fees, and if
you don't continue paying taxes on that home the home can be taken from
its owner. So why do we blind complain when we have to pay transfer
licensing fees?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 5:21 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: selling a jaws license
Dear Jim
Software is unlike anything else we have in the real world in that it is
not a "thing" that you have to own that actually depreciates, but instead
with software you purchase is the right to use it which is sometimes
transferrable or not according to the stipulation of the developer as
rights granted to you by its license.
Part of the reason for this is that software has an ongoing cost
regarding its maintenance even if you no longer own it yourself. If you
sell JAWS for X amount of money that goes back into your pocket, whilst
the cost of supporting it still lies with Freedom Scientific and
associated dealers. A table or any other object can be sold and the deal
is done it usually does not require anything else however nobody is going
to help if you get a chip in the table or the leg falls off. For
software it is different because those who will have to continue to look
after that copy of JAWS brought by another individual still have the
ongoing duty and cost to maintenance and support it, replace activations,
replace a dongle, figure out why something doesn't work. This is the
thinking behind a registration fee.
The requirement to upgrade to the latest version is more an indication
that Freedom Scientific does not want a second hand market in its
software. Some developers don't even allow you to transfer a license to
another individual. I own several software titles that are like this.
On some of these if I lose a dongle I would literally have to buy the
software all over again. With JAWS as long as your are registered you do
not have to buy your license over again.
One reason personally why I don’t think the second hand market in
software is so good is that sometimes those with software to sell do not
always play nicely. I have personally seen more than once where somebody
has brought off a blind forum and found somebody has taken their money
but not provided to keys to the software license itself leaving the buyer
high and dry. This should never happen but it does.
I know now (and of course it is a Monday morning) that the hounds of hell
will be unleashed upon me as a result of putting my head above the
parapet.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of jim mcauslan
Sent: 18 June 2012 08:21
To: access-uk
Subject: [access-uk] selling a jaws license
Hi List,
I have a lisence for Jaws professional version 12 and it is now surplus
to
requirement but I found out that if I wish to sell on the lisence I have
to
firstly upgrade it to the latest version and then pay a transfer of
ownership fee of £80 or there abouts.
My question is why can't I sell this product to whoever is willing to pay
for it?
Why does it have to be the latest version and why does it cost so much to
transfer ownership?
Seems like a huge rip off curtesy of Freedom Scientific, or am I just
being
overly cynical?
Jim McAuslan from sunny Findhorn
jim.mcauslan@xxxxxxx
minds are like parachutes
work best when open
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