I guess you didn't see that I do donate to NVDA.
Maria Campbell
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On 11/3/2018 12:09 AM, Sieghard Weitzel
wrote:
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Thank you Al for saying
this. I really wonder why Maria, Gerald and a few others who
seem to have little good to say about Vispero and Jaws just
don't use NVDA. Of course I doubt they would ever think of
contributing to the development of NVDA by making a $5 or
$10 donation, but that's OK (for now at least).
As for Gerald's awesome
idea to buy a subscription every two years I hate to
disappoint him, but I have a feeling that Vispero has
thought of that. After all, a subscription is a subscription
and that means whatever you get during your subscription
period you will not get if you end the subscription. In
other words, I assume if you stopped paying the subscription
Jaws would simply revert to 40-minute demo mode since when
it starts up and goes online to the Vispero server to check
the license it will see "Gerald hasn't paid up, go into 40
minute mode".
This is no different
from Office 365, you can download and use all the Office
apps as long as your Office 365 subscription is active, if
you cancel your payment you get a message that you can still
use certain features which are free, i.e. I think you can
still open files and view them, but you can't edit them etc.
Best regards,
Sieghard
It amazes me what lengts folks will do to
try to put the screws to others. If everybody took this route
and VO had to close up then you all would be complaining that
you ended up getting screwed yourselves. By the way, if you
buy a license every other year, did it ever cross your mind
that you would have to buy the year that you so wisely
skipped?
Al
Actually, that's even less expensive than the SMA, since it
makes it $45 per year. Hmm.
Maria Campbell
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On 11/2/2018 5:25 PM, Maria Campbell
wrote:
I'll keep that in mind when they yank the SMA.
Maria Campbell
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On 11/2/2018 5:22 PM, Gerald Levy
wrote:
I thought of a suggestion for
beating Vispero at its own game. Instead of buying
a one year license every year, why not consider
buying a one year license every two years instead?
So if you purchase a one year license for JAWS 2019,
consider skipping JAWS 2020, unless it has some new
feature you feel that you must absolutely have, and
buy a one year license again when JAWS 2021 is
released. This way, you have the benefit of keeping
JAWS reasonably up to date and slashing yourannual
cost for JAWS in half. As JAWS 2019 demonstrates,
Vispero is finally running out of ideas for new whiz
bang features, and is concentrating more on bug
fixes and minor enhancements, some of which may be
of dubious value. So just buy a one year license in
odd years, or even years, whichever you prefer.
Some users have reported that JAWS versions released
in odd years have fewer bugs than those released in
even years, while others have reported just the
opposite. Take your pick. In any case, it’s like
having your cake and eating it, too. So instead of
being a slave to the annual update, stick it to
Vispero instead.
Sent: Friday,
November 02, 2018 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Need
Details On New Annual Jaws Home Subscription
As others have pointed out many
times, no one’s making you use Jaws. NVDA’s nice
and free. I’m primarily a Jaws user and use NVDA
mainly in a pinch or if Jaws has frozen on me, but
I still donate to the NVDA project. It’s good that
there’s an option for those who don’t have the
means for commercial screen readers and
alternatives are always good. But yes, please come
back with some sort of line of how NVDA is a
public project that can be abandoned at any time
blah blah blah.
According to Eric, the
advantage of buying a five year license is
that it protects you against future price
increases. So if you buy a five year
license now for $450, which works out to $90
a year, and Vispero decides next year to
raise the price of a one year license to
$100, you are locked in to the cheaper price
for five years. What a swell bunch of guys!
Sent:
Friday, November 02, 2018 2:55 PM
Subject: Re:
Need Details On New Annual Jaws Home
Subscription
Don't forget the
interest on the money if customers decide
to pay for the additional years.
The are laughing all
the way to the bank. In addition, it is a
case of having their cake and eating it!
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Sent: Friday,
November 02, 2018 3:21 PM
Subject: Re:
Need Details On New Annual Jaws Home
Subscription
You’re absolutely
right. To me, the five year license
is nothing but a scam to get
customers to pay upfront so that
Vispero has the use of these funds
immediately. If they were really
concerned about their customers who
live on fixed incomes, they would
offer a discount of say, 10% or 15%
if you buy a five years license so
that it would cost only $400 instead
of $450, as a gesture of good faith
to their long-term customers.
Again, I see no advantage paying
$450 up front for a five year
license when buying an annual
license every year for the next five
years would cost exactly the same.
Sent:
Friday, November 02, 2018
11:06 AM
Subject:
Re: Need Details On New Annual
Jaws Home Subscription
It seems to me that if and when the
SMA program is terminated, the least
they can do is discount the licenses
with additional years. Has Freedom
Scientific/VFO/Vispero forgotten
that most blind people don't have a
lot of money since so many of us are
not employed or receive our JAWS
from agencies?
Maria Campbell
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On 11/1/2018
9:53 PM, cecropia64 wrote:
seems to me that this new system
is going to be more expensive by a
lot.� With a sma, you are only
paying sixty dollars a year.�
But if the prices quoted are
correct, you'll be paying ninety
dollars a year and it goes up from
there.� What is the purpose of
this?�
Stew
On 11/1/2018
9:21 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
Thanks,
Michael.
�
It seems to
me that this new system will
replace the older SMA system.
�
Is this
correct?
�
I do have
one concern, though.
�
$90 a year
doesn�t seem to be that
great of a deal, since back in
2016, I got two years of Jaws
for $120, as long as I
purchased the license by
December 31.
�
�
Sent:
Thursday, November 1,
2018 11:20 AM
Subject:
Re: Need Details On New
Annual Jaws Home
Subscription
Michael:
�
Where did
you get this info?
�
I�m
asking because the explanation
seemed to end in mid sentence.
�
I�d like
to get the full explanation of
the various Jaws home options
if possible.
�
Thanks for
the help!
�
Tom Behler
�
�
�
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Sent:
Thursday, November 1,
2018 10:53 AM
Subject:
Need Details On New
Annual Jaws Home
Subscription
Hello,
everyone.
�
I have been
reading bits and pieces of
info, but can�t seem to find
a nice concise summary of the
new Jaws annual home license
that apparently is now
available with the release of
Jaws 2019.
�
Jaws 2019
is the last Jaws upgrade on my
SMA, so I will need to do
something to renew it at some
point.
�
Up until
now, I�ve renewed my Jaws
Home SMA for a two-year period
for $120.
�
If there
now is a more economical way
to do this, I�d certainly
love to learn about it.
�
Dr.� Tom
Behler from Michigan
�
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