JAWS, authorization & free markets
- From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:00:37 -0600
Hi Listers,
While Freedom Scientific is not guiltless in their approach to their
customer base, there is no justification for circumventing the
authorization system because two wrongs do not and never have made a
right.
As the general populous becomes more and more illiterate hardware and
software manufacturers will continue to make more and more things speak
because folks just can't read. Cars talk to tell you of problems, VCRs
speak to you, cameras speak to tell you some basic information,
refrigerators hook to the internet to provide information to the
"housewife" and so on.
Cast your memory back to when a few libraries had the magic machine
which would read a book and cost more than $32,000 in 1969 dollars.
Today you can purchase the same capability for under $1,600 or so in
2003 dollars. What would $1,600 be in 1969 dollars? Maybe $800?
There will come a day when you can purchase the JAWS like ability for
under $100. You can get the ability to reliably scan a document for
under $100 today. Sure, it does not have all of the bells and whistles
of some select market software but it is affordable to those of us who
do not have the luxury of having our hardware and software provided to
us by some governmental agency.
Thanks for all of the valuable tips and hints I have gotten from the
List this year. Wishing all of you a most profitable and peaceful New
Year. CYS...
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