Re: JFW 5.1 What a disappointment
- From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:19:26 -0500 (CDT)
No, true, but the very fact that the competition includes it at no charge
would be enough to suggest to me that for FS to charge for it is either
adaptive technology suicide or a sign of incredible cockiness in the
assumption that people will just pay whatever they charge because they're
that good.
Bruce
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Angel wrote:
> I am wondering whether the 200 price is for the new customers or for us all.
> The average home user isn't going to require Citrix support anyway.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Vandecar" <kg7ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: JFW 5.1 What a disappointment
>
>
>> If you want Citrix support be prepared to get out your wallet. I heard
> $200
>> on main menu.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "emarquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 8:41 PM
>> Subject: JFW 5.1 What a disappointment
>>
>>
>>> I was gratified to see some bug fixes, but I was mostly disappointed.
>>> 1. The video bug that has kept me using 4.51 on my laptop instead of
>>> 5.0 (and that seems to have plagued several others on this list) appears
>>> to have been ignored entirely; and
>>> 2. Citrix support is still lacking.
>>> It looks like Freedom Scientific realizes it has missed the Citrix
>>> train, inferring from the sort of apology on the Website announcement
>>> about no Citrix support. We are supposed to watch the Website during
>>> the next several weeks for new developments.
>>> The other guys have Citrix support and at least have announced that they
>>> will work with Word.
>>> On balance, I would rather have a screen reader that works with Word
>>> than one that works with Citrix, but it would be nice to have both.
>>> I guess I would have liked a similar apology for the failure to fix the
>>> 5.0-introduced video bug.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ed Marquette
>>> 930 West 34th St.
>>> Kansas City, MO 64111
>>> (816) 561- 7111
>>>
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