Re: a few complaints about the blind comunity
Guitarman, it costs approximately 150000 (one hundred and fifty thousand dollars) per year for each programmer assigned to a project like JAWS or windows eyes. It costs less for support staff - probably only between 40 and 80k, but it's still pretty significant.
Even if it only takes one engineer and one support guy to maintain the product (which is probably a serious underestimate), that's still around $200k per year minimum, and at 500 dollars per copy they'll have to sell 4k copies per year just to cover personnel. In reality, costs are probably a lot higher than that, and sales are probably declining every year due to things like NVDA. I wouldn't expect JAWS to be a significant player in a few years.
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