RE: JAWS, authorization & free markets
- From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:02:08 -0600
Trouble, my friend,
You need to carefully read the email. I did not say you would be able
to purchase JAWS for under $100, I said you will be able to purchase a
product with JAWS like features for under $100. Today you can purchase a
good OCR product for under $100. Sure, Text Cloner does not have all of
the bells and whistles that Open book has but, for those of use who can
not afford the Freedom Scientific prices Text Cloner works just fine. As
more and more products use speech the JAWS like features will be
available on most software products because there are an awful lot of
people who just flat can not read. Not because they have a visual
problem, it is because they are, for all practical purposes, illiterate.
Take a check of today's high school students and ask them to read
something. You will be amazed at what a chore it is for them. Yes, you
are correct, Freedom Scientific is not likely to lower their prices so
long as there is a governmental or some other charitable agency willing
to pay the current price. Now, while we are on this subject, the one
thing I can not believe is that someone actually published a source for
JAWS keys knowing that this list is monitored by Freedom Scientific. It
ranks right up there with the bank robber who wrote the demand note on
the back of his personal check. I also think most of us are in agreement
that it is not good to bite the hand that, so to speak, feeds you.
Hopefully we can put this matter to sleep once and for all. CYS...
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of trouble
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 6:01 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: JAWS, authorization & free markets
you got to be kidding jaws for under $100? Don't make me laugh! As long
as the government and sheep pay the price it will never come down
in fact its went up!
At 04:00 PM 12/31/03 -0600, you wrote:
>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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Tim
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