Some folks believe in following the law and some folks don't. Those that
don't follow the law and legally purchase what they use, make efforts to
find their freebies. And yes, we are lucky that we in the west have a
better lifestyle than others in the world, but that doesn't justify breaking
the law. If the producer of Hope decides, because too many people are using
his software and not paying him, he, as a businessman, can make choices
himself. One of those choices is to just not provide the software, and in
that case, it doesn't matter what we in the west or those inIndia do, we
won't have the option of using non-existent software. And as Chris said,
there are free alternatives for screen readers, so those who cannot afford
them have a choice. It doesn't matter what their house cost or how they
heat their water.
----- Original Message -----
From: "mop" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:44 AM
Subject: pandora
Yes and I don't understand the attitude Of so many on the list that think
they have
to waste everyone's time with their holier than thou attitude. Does
anyone really
believe that posting these messages is going to persuade anyone to buy
hope if they
don't want to do so. I mean it is 10 dollars. so clearly people can
afford 10 dollars.
You are going to have someone who doesn't want to pay and isn't going to
but the
overwhelming majority of people will pay $10 for software which works as
well as
hope does. However, that won't stop people from repeatedly making the
same point
on the list. in other words many messages denouncing the behavior of a
few people
who get a free copy of the software.
however, since you brought up the topic of affordability of software why
don't you
comment on the millions of blind people around the world who cannot afford
screen
readers. They will never in there lifetime be able to have what we do in
the states.
Even at $400 for an individual license it is far out of the reach of these
people.
However, let them eat cake right an do with out. That is something worth
talking
and thinking about not the absurdly few that get free hope. The blind
people of
India much less Pakistan or Algeria can only dream of having jaws or
window-eyes.
Of course, those relatively few blind people who have jobs and therefore,
scrape
enough money together to get a computer and then the screen reader on top
of that
They don't have washers dryers refrigerators, garbage collection or built
in water
heaters. They take their bath in a bucket with a heating element to heat
the water.
Again these are the employed blind people in the village in India much
less Pakistan
or china. However, keep those profits rolling in and keep talking about a
few people
getting hope as if the point hasn't been made a hundred times.
Oh and for perspective a house is being bought for $3000 and it will take
another
$1500 to fix it up to living standards. This is from someone who happens
to have
enough gold to sell to buy the house. normally he would not be able to
ever afford
that. Even if we take that as a price of $5000 dollars a house costs 11
times what
the screen reader. does. Even if you double that the house costs 22 times
what the
screen reader does. In this country the screen reader would cost $5000
dollars.
So maybe the screen reader makers should raise their prices to $5000 and
let's see
how many Americans could afford that. Lets see how many blind people
would stick
with their attitude of well just buy the darn thing. I think cracking
would go up
quite a bit. Of course you would have those that denounce it while doing
it themselves.
On 3/13/2012 3:37 PM, Baracco, Andrew W wrote:skype wincric
If one can't afford a $10 piece of software, how did they afford their
computer? I never understood this mentality that says that people
should get things for free that others have to pay for. Time after time
I hear people saying that they can't afford something, but they have the
latest cell phone, note taker, etc. Christopher is a college student
who probably can't afford a lot of things either, and he just wants to
make some extra money while helping out at the same time. Being an
adult means assuming adult responsibility.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott [
mailto:[email protected]
]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:50 AM
To:
[email protected]
Cc:
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
Subject: Re: Pandora?
god how dumb are you. Maybe the person can't afford it right now.
I bought it but that doesn't mean the rest of us can afford it.
I hate you types of people that assume peope can buy every damn thing in
the world.
so shove off
Original message:
Why would you offer to give away software that is made available to
blind people for $10? You, and those who take advantage of your offer
are stealing from Christopher Toth, who wrote that program and made it
available to us at a very reasonable price, as well as from the
Pandora company. Shame on you. Is there also a link in that dropbox
of y ours for Window-Eyes?
Louis Gosselin
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott [
mailto:[email protected]
]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:45 AM
To:
[email protected]
Cc:
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
Subject: Re: Pandora?
Hi all.
I use this program and i happen to have it for anyone who wants it,
just send me a private email and i'll send ya a dropbox link to
download it.
You can also run it indemo mode but if you do that you can only work
with one station at a time.
scott
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