Hi there is a reason you need to buy other upgrades and you can't
just go straight to the current one. In your example you need to
buy keysoft 6 because it included a update to the windows on the
bn. I know this isn't always going to be the case but it is in
this example. This is why people should buy a sma then you pay
for two upgrades for the price of one. But this won't work for
the classics because there is only one upgrade left now.
From Shaz
Bn classic and Pk user.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc."
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To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:27:06 -0600
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Future upgrades.
Hello Don:
Please don't hide under a parapet, <smile>!! Come on out and be
part of the
ROUND TABLE discussion.
There are some interesting thought contained in your post.
Perhaps it is
JUST ME: I think it is PRICE GOUCHING when Humanware FORCES ME
to TAKE ON
TWO UPGRADES when all I need is one. For example, I want to
UPGRADE TO
VERSION 7.0 or whatever the latest Keysoft thingy is that would
work on my
BrailleNote Classic. To get to Version7.0, I MUST FORCIBLY
PURCHASE the
Version 6.0. This, in my opinion, is a RIP OFF. And I think the
ONLY
REASON why Humanware CAN GET AWAY with it is because no company
in the
assistive technology HAS EVER BEEN SLAPPED with a real lawsuit
that has GONE
THROUGH THE COURTS. Wish I have the clout--I'd like to PULL TH
FIRST STRING
on that one! Microsoft, despite the fact that it is HARDLY EVER
LIKED by
many, never FORCED ME to buy Windows 95 before upgrading to
Windows XP, but
if it had been an assistive technology company like Humanware, I
will still
be running DOS as I might not be able to COME UP with the UGE SUM
required
to purchase all the upgrades.
Having add-ons for each country can be a tough call; you should
realise,
Don, that the United States HAS THE LARGEST MARKET for assistive
technology
deployment; everybody WANTS TO SELL HERE, <grin>!! We Americans
have
INSATIABLE APPETITES for the best and the greatest, and always
want to be
able to STAY IN LINE with our sighted counterparts. Hence the
need for us
to CLAMOUR for BETTER AND GREATER ACCESSIBILITY from time to
time. We pay
6,000 plus Dollars, ad we OUGHT TO DRIVE OUR TOY to death gaiing
access to
what MAKES US STAY GAINFULLY EMPLOYED and on the SAME PAGE as our
sghted
peers.
Regarding Bookshare and RFB&D books and their access using the
BrailleNote
product family, it is much easier for us here in the United
States to GET
PERMISSION to reproduce PRINTED MATERIALS in ALTERNATE ACCESSIBLE
FORMATS.
In fact, our copyright laws PERMITS AND ALLOWS us to do this.
Copyright
laws vary from country to country, and, since MOST COUNTRIES DO
NOT HAVE
SPECIFIC LAWS ON DISABILITY RIGHTS, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY
agreements
regarding access to PRINTED MATERIALS in those other countries
can be easily
negotiated. This, I paucit, is the reason why both Bookshare and
RFB&D
LIMIT ACCESS RIGHTS to the MATERIALS the produce to ONLY U.S.
CITIZENS! In
this regard, neither corporation can be faulted!! It might be
nice if blind
folks in other countries could articulate what kind of upgrades
they'd like
to see in the BrailleNote or VoiceNote.
As for me, I'd like the ability t INSTALL THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE
overtly
proprietary stuff MAKES ME SICK!! Assistive technology companies
ARE
NOTORIOUS for NEVER TRYING TO GET OFF the proprietary trail. It
is, I feel,
their way of MAKING SURE THAT THE "MILKING OF THE COW" REMAINS
THEIR
EXCLUSIVE preserve.
Sincerely,
Olusegun
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