RE: Freedom Scientific's Lack of Support for Hardware
- From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:55:17 -0500
Bruce,
Its sorta like what Avis used to say. "When you're number two you try
harder."
Cy, the Ancient Okie...
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:43 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific's Lack of Support for Hardware
Can you answer a question directly for me? Why is it that GW Micro has a
lot more loyal users willing to stick up for them?
Bruce
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Gene wrote:
> Ok, let me clarify my point here. FS supplies a product that it tries
> to make as useable as possible to as many people as possible. Yes
> there a lot of little problems that come up with one software package
> or another, or one O. S. or another. But on the whole the product runs
> as advertised. No software package is perfect, and as this last
> incident proved FS is willing to put out corrected versions of the
> product as fast as possible. We may not agree with all the things they
> do, or how they do them. But they have put a lot of time, work, and
> money in to Jaws. It isn't my money, so I don't think I have the right
> to tell them how to do business. If the product works for me then I'll
> use it, if it doesn't I won't... it's just that simple.
>
>
> Thanks; Gene
>
> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific's Lack of Support for Hardware
>
>
>> I haven't seen FS say they were going to not support 98, I only said
>> that it may have been a choice of what to write for. Tell me you
>> would have written
>> for an operating system that wasn't going to be supported by the
company
>> that developed it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it isn't
their
>> job
>> to keep up with all the older versions of Windows, it's Microsoft's
job.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks; Gene
>>
>> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Marsha Anderson" <marcatony@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific's Lack of Support for Hardware
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>> Even Microsoft lets people know ahead of time that they are
>>> discontinuing support for a particular product. Does this mean that
>>> FS has a better business plan than Microsoft? Marsha Anderson
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