Re: JAWS and its license history
And the professional version of Jaws, which most if not all people will eventually need, is not a direct upfront cost to you if you're lucky, but it remains expensive as ever for agencies and corporations. It's why people who request Jaws may not be getting their daisy player/gps to go along with their note taker, for example, because those are likely the same people to want a pearl despite KNFB, Google Lookout, and now VoiceDream Scanner being superior.
Rachel @Daigonite I think this topic is a good one to point out that GW Micro *conducted* itself a bit better, because they were acquired by VFO only to have Window Eyes killed off. There goes another option out the window.
Now, at the same time, Window Eyes (despite its shortcomings) had a lot more customer-focus from the start, allowing a very generous payment plan as an option, and also offering it for free for Office 2010 and up or Office365 customers, which is a package people are almost guaranteed to have with their computer or need at some point. Also taking into account that Window EYes came with no copy protection whatsoever. Your license key was embedded into the disk, but the disk wasn't hardware-ID'd (Teledisk for Jaws license diskettes anyone?) so you could carry it over to as many computers as you so choose as long as they were your own.
And with Jaws, we have a very buggy license manager (well, not exactly because now it's a complicated mess) they have the web portal now that you can actually use to deauthorize computers and manage licenses a lot easier than you used to, but the professional version doesn't come with that I believe and still uses ILM.
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