[access-uk] Re: selling a jaws license
- From: Tristram Llewellyn <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:21:44 +0000
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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