Well if this is the case, then why is it that HJ finds it necessary to raise
the price of SMA's. You got to agree that HJ is making more money then ever
before. Why the increase? Could it be that they are taking the
incorporation of Magic into account. Well at any case my biggest gripe is
that just when something gets good something else goes bad. It's like they
can't keep everything working all together good. Overall it is the best but
the little imperfections that are around with JFW's scripts are
accumilatively annoying.
Best regards,
Carlos
-----Original Message-----
From: civi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Price of JAWS
>Right on!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 8:31 AM
>Subject: Re: Price of JAWS
>
>
>To: mark spider
>
>I disagree with your statement that making the price of JFW
>quote more reasonable end-quote would reduce piracy.
>
>Someone who will steal $795 will also steal $495 or $395.
>
>I'm not accusing you of being a pirate but what you wrote
>is exactly what the software pirates say when they try to
>justify their thefts with whiney excuses.
>
>The way to legitimately reduce the price of software is
>to increase the sales so that development costs are
>spread over a wider base. And I don't mean by taking
>sales away from other speech programs.
>
>So if the goal is a lower-priced JFW, let's work towards
>that goal. Let's spread the word in the blind community
>and among the sighted family members of blind persons, and
>among the charitable organizations that would fund purchases,
>and among employers who employ blind people, and among
>employers who would employ blind people if they only knew
>about JFW and Omni 1000. (The blind guy who turned me on to
>speech products is the most computer savvy person in his office
>of sighted people, and even his employer's NATIONAL help desk
>calls him for advice.)
>
>So do some public relations. Spread your knowledge. If you
>know how to install JFW and train someone in its use, call
>your state's blind school and offer your service. Call your
>local Lion's organization and offer them your services. Charge
>for your time, or just volunteer, but just do it.
>
>There are tens of thousands of blind people, maybe more,
>who could use a computer and whose family could afford a
>computer or who would qualify for charitable
>(or government) assistance. Yet those people are going
>without a computer because they either don't know what's
>available, or they don't know where to go to buy an
>integrated system, or they don't know where to go for
>funding. Average computer stores don't know anything about
>speech products, and there are darn few companies that
>specialize in serving the blind, and even fewer that really
>know what they are doing.
>
>A Kurzweil reading machine used to cost twenty thousand
>dollars, then ten thousand. Now you can get a fully functional
>Windows 98 computer with all the standard features, plus HP scanner,
>Kurzweil's Omni 1000, Jaws for Windows, a computer desk, and
>have money left over to hire someone to put it together and
>train you for about five thousand dollars. Maybe more, maybe
>less depending on what you want.
>
>So spread the word, volunteer, or whatever. Be part of
>the solution.
>
>At 08:36 PM 1/7/1999 PST, you wrote:
>>If they made the price more reasonible then this wouldnt happen.
>
>
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>
>
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