Hello Rusty,
Jonathan was and is a good role model for many blind people! He has gone to
Freedom Scientific but he is still that personable man, teacher, intelligent
and capable person that we grew to love and trust! There are many reasons
someone leaves a job, perhaps personal as well as professional! Humanware
has lost an excellent employee but Freedom Scientific has gained an
excellent employee! Jonathan has made the decision that is best for him and
hopefully the CEO's of Freedom Scientific will allow him some latitude in
development of their products! If this is the case then other blind people
will benefit as well! I am hopeful that Humanware will be able to find a
worthy replacement for Jonathan and we can get on with improving the
Braillenote products.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rusty Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] about Jonathan Mosen
I think the answer for why some folks are taking this so hard is that
Jonathan was many things. He was part of the community, a blind guy much
like many of us. He was part guru. He was the guy that people went to when
they needed help. He was the guy in the know, for many, the voice on the
other end of the radio, or the tutor, the teacher.
People forgot, or never thought about the fact that ultimately he was also
being paid.
This shouldn't discount any of that teaching ETC, but Jonathan was more
than
a salesman, a spokesman for HW in many ways.
The community is so small that this could happen.
People don't grow as attached to the CEO of Microsoft or some celebrity
hocking something on TV. Many people on this list followed Jonathan's
daily
life, on his blog, on his radio shows. They received phone calls from him
personally trying to solve real problems in their lives.
I agree, it's business, but for many folks the BN represents a chance at
functioning almost normally, and so for a figure who embodied that, to go
to
the competition against who he figuratively fought for many years, this is
difficult.
Rusty
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Kepler
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 6:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [Braillenote] about Jonathan Mosen
I am a bit confused by this feeling of portrayal being expressed. He
changed jobs he didn't cheat on anyone. Why would any of us changed
employers?
Perhaps they offered him too much money to turn down? Perhaps there
were
more challenges and growth opportunities?
Would any of us want to be spoken of like this, if we simply made the
choice to change employers? You would think he was found guilty of
treason.
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