On Jun 14, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Dennis Long via Talk <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>
wrote:
Let's just wait and see what happens. We don't know the inner workings of
the agreement.
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On Behalf Of Reeva Webb via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:25 PM
To: Doug Geoffray; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: VFO acquisition of Ai Squared
"nobody will be abandoned or taken advantage of" I respect you a lot and
it's great that your optimistic about this, as far as I'm concerned
lollollollollollollol I'll believe it when I see it.
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Doug Geoffray via Talk <
talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I wanted to chime in here and give my personal thoughts to the
bombshell released today regarding VFO (the parent company of Freedom
Scientific and Optelec) acquiring Ai Squared. And by bombshell, I
don't mean a bad thing, I just mean it is shocking and unexpected news.
I know this may seem scary to many people. I know that we have a
great number of extremely loyal customers who may be feeling betrayed.
There are lots of legit concerns and questions that I'm sure come to
everyone's minds. But honestly, nobody knows the answers at this
point. We are just starting the discussions internally of how best to
take all our new resources, talent, products, etc. and meld them
together to give the best customer experience. For the next 6 months
or so, it will be business as usual. After the 6 months, who knows at
this point but I can guarantee the customers will benefit from the
results.
Nobody will be abandoned or taken advantage of, etc. I'm very
impressed with John Blake (CEO of VFO). I truly believe John is in
this for the customer.
Personally, I'm extremely excited with the possibilities. Think about
it, we now have all the best minds in this industry under one roof.
Instead of us duplicating resources, we can combine them and inovate.
Although Freedom has been our number one competitor since Dan and I
started GW Micro in 1990, I've always had great respect for their
engineers. Okay, I've had questions about their corporate leadership,
a certain lawsuit comes to mind (smile), but that was a completely
different leadership team. That was a different owner and a different
CEO. Vector has an outstanding reputation. John Blake has shown
great leadership and concern for the customer. Under this new
leadership and available resources, I'm ready to take that and do
whatever it takes to have the best possible solutions for our
customers, for every low vision and blind person out there.
People may be concerned about lack of competition causing innovation
and quality to suffer. Nothing can be further from the truth. There
is still plenty of competition out there, including free options but
we have the determination and drive, starting at the corporate level
all they way down to provide the best quality products, hands down.
Yes, this will take some time to prove but I'm hoping that everyone
out there will give us that opportunity. Again, I'm putting everything
I have into this venture and I wouldn't do that if I didn't believe in it.
Regards,
Doug
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