Re: S M A renewal
- From: "Debbie Kessler" <jessesgirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:13:39 -0700
I remember someone figuring out that he would spend $1,000. a year to keep up
on adaptive software per year and this was back in the mid 90s. I think he was
figuring on ZoomText, jaws, MSWord, and the Internet. Back then, we had to find
alternative ways to read the internet, JAWS couldn't handle it and the Internet
just wasn't accessible. Now, if I start to consider how many computers I have
purchased and replaced in the last 10 years. I know no other business that is
allowed to operate like the computer business; we are either upgrading software
or hardware.
Debbie & Jesse
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Gillard
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: S M A renewal
I could not agree more!
You shell out $1300 for jfw pro & by the time a few years have gone by you
have spent hundreds more to keep up with the latest & so called greatest.
Theoretically, you could end up paying $5000 just to have access to your PC.
Disgusting....Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Clendinen" <alanclendinen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <uncle.jam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:53 AM
Subject: re: S M A renewal
> John,
>
> You have touched upon a very controversial aspect of Freedom Scientific's
> SMA renewal policy.
>
> If you choose not to pay for the SMAs through 3 or four upgrades, and then
> decide to buy an SMA so you can get the latest update, FS will expect you
> to
> pay for the previous SMAs.
>
> Since each SMA covers 2 upgrades, if there have been 4 upgrades since you
> last had an active SMA, and now a fifth upgrade has been released, you
> would
> have to pay for 3 SMAs in order to be authorized to use the latest SMA.
>
> This is a lousy deal for JFW users such as me, who were unable to use any
> versions of JFW between 3.7U and 5.10, because of an incompatibility
> between
> the Windows Sticky Keys utility and those versions of JFW. The FS SMA
> policy
> forces us to pay for versions of JFW which render our computers unusable.
>
> Alan
>
> John wrote:
> I have a question for the list. If you don't continue pay for your s m a
> and
> after 3 or 4 major upgrades come and go and now you decided to upgrade
> what
> price does f s charge for the upgrade.
> I having been paying for upgrades and don't see much difference oh yes
> more
> bells & whistles but that is all.
>
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