Well, another thing that had a hand in window bridge's going out of business
was that one of the brothers died. There was talk of starting it up again,
but that never happened. One thing I liked about window bridge is that it
had the dos screenreader, slimware. Nobody told me what that was until I
was just about ready to get rid of it. Back then, you closed windows, and
the computer went to a dos prompt. There was dos in there. If I had known
that, I could have played my dos games, and used some of the dos disks I
had. Pam.
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From: Sky Mundell via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 2:02 AM
To: 'Grant Metcalf' ; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' ; 'David'
Subject: RE: Response to Dve about WindowEyes and and the Shark
Hi Grant. Your absolutely right. The reason why JAWS got the government
agencies was because they sued any state agencies who did not purchase JAWS.
In other words, they threatened the agencies to either buy JAWS or be sued
and that scared the agencies so much that they began purchasing only JAWS.
As a result, many of the earlier windows screen readers, like Slimware
Window Bridge, all went out of business.
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From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+skyt=shaw...@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Grant Metcalf via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 10:42 PM
To: David; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Response to Dve about WindowEyes and and the Shark
Hi dave,
You have many good points with respect to business expenses and compotition.
Unfortunately, The Shark got the government involved in purchasing their
product and so made it difficult for other screen reader programs to be as
well funded as VFO is. I suspect that because the government is so involved
with JFW it will be the primary product for VFO dispite our preferences.
Grandpa DOS will never purchase the Shark, but if I change, it will probably
be to NVDA or perhaps Narrator should I have the money to spend. The other
unfortunate thing is that all those who have taxable income will be paying
for the Shark anyway. To often big business and government work
hand-in-hand. Weep out loud!
Grandpa DOS
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