Re: how much do you think freedom scientific loses because of cracked jaws
As many others have said before me, I don't think FS cares that much about cracks. They're mostly focused on big enterprise/govt customers, mostly in the US. That's because american law requires companies to make workplaces accessible, which is not the case in most other countries. Big corps tend to trust other big corps like FS more than open source software. This is, in part, because Freedom Scientific, instead of providing just JAWS itself, provides some auxiliary services like technical support, writing scripts that make custom, internal applications accessible etc. They even make Jfw work with some piece of software if a big corp needs it. They're focused on business applications like MS Office, and those work with JAWS really well, better than NVDA. They care a lot about efficiency, fast access to information etc. as all of this matters in the workplace. Individual customers are a nice bonus, not their main source of revenue. I wouldn't say that they made this decision out of sheer stupidity, they probably realized the the individual customers market is dominated by NVDA and smartphones, where JAWS doesn't run. They can get much more money out of providing JAWS at a very high price, selling it to companies, along with the additional services they need, of course.
One thing to note, though, is that the attitude to cracks isn't shared by other companies, particularly those who distribute FS products to other countries. For example, Altix, the FS dealer for Poland, modifies the polish version of JAWS and adds software to it. This software displays annoing alerts every few minutes unless you register your JAWS with Altix, and you can only do that if you purchased the serial with them. They try tp sell JFW to whomever they can, sometimes even to people who don't need it at all. There seems to be a coordinated efford by the dealers to spread FUD about NVDA. There have been some articles floating around, stating that NVDA is just two guys in a garage, that it might stop exist at any point, destroy your computer etc. Most of it is utter bs, of course.
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