I certainly can understand your frustration, but the day that I call
AISquared for technical support or to purchase a new SMA and I either
get the recording that the number I have dialed is no longer in service
or when the person answering the phone answers "VFO or JAWS" I will not
believe that it is actually dead! I wonder when that will happen..? Have
A Good 1! de
<KF8LT><Jim>.
On 19-Dec-16 14:00, Vaughan Dodd via Talk wrote:
What is required is for VFO to say something.
Whilst I respect those who ask us to stop the speculation, they appear to be
missing the evidence.
For example: if a product is basically free, and given that this free product's
code is still protected - will there be on-going development or will the code
be released into the public domain?
Given that there are numerous bugs some of which are long standing - will those
bugs get replaced by other bugs as a new version is released?
Why would anyone - including myself - continue to purchase Window-eyes beynd
Software Maintenance agreements, which at this stage, are looking unlikely to
be honoured?
If VFO was annoyed with this enless speculation, why does it not use a listserv
which it owns to give us some definitive answers to reasonable questions?
I am putting off the moment when I will be forced to agree to use to JFW. But
VFO continues to provide JFW UPDATES, BECAUSE IN TRUTH, vfo IS JUST THE FRONT
FOR THE PREDATORY BEHAVIOURS OF Freedom Scientific.
Vaughan.
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:talk-bounces+vaughan.dodd001=msd.govt...@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Brandon Miller via Talk
Sent: Monday, 19 December 2016 11:13 p.m.
To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com; talk-requ...@lists.window-eyes.com
Subject: Wayning Window-eyes
All I can definitively tell you is this folks, I work full time professionally
as an assistive technology instructor with a blindness agency every day. At a
recent retreat, the thinking throughout the room did most certainly seem to be
that VFO most likely does have plans to quote unquote, kill off, Window-eyes,
either now or in the not too distant future. The question I asked was, why are
we, that is the assistive tech department, going to officially be promoting the
use of NVDA as a free screen reader, and not Window-eyes? My logic being that
Window-eyes can also essentially be free as well. That's when several replies
came back that gave me the distinct impression that Window-eyes'
days may in truth be numbered. I hope that's not the case; I've been a customer
of Gw Micro since the Vocal-eyes days! Anyone here remember those days? Back
when it used to be Jaws for Dos, versus Vocal-eyes? I remember when it used to
be Arkenstone who sold Openbook, not Freedom Scientific. I do feel that Gw
Micro personnel do need to innovate, and do need to perhaps learn new ways of
becoming freshly and aggressively competitive. I certainly hope the shark
doesn't gobble up everybody, yuck!
Brandon Miller
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