Freedom Scientific will kick and scream, but here is what you do. Make the
company the purchaser and the end user. By doing this the business is
actually the person using the computers. FS has to open the license up for
all your computers at that address for legal reasons. If you open a new
location which in effect will be another person then you'll have to buy
another copy. This works if you're a LLC or Incorporated not if you're a
sole owner.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws Stuff
Why would they need to buy 2 jaws lisences. Jaws gives you the opertunity
to install onto 3 machines at once. It's being purchased by 1 company, so
it's legal to do that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:30 PM
Subject: Jaws Stuff
Couple interesting bits before this thread goes away:
1. I know a number of folks who were working to set up an internet cafe
in Pearlington Mississippi, which was pretty much destroyed by recent
floods. So they were asking what they would need to make one or two
workstations accessible and were told to buy two copies of Jaws. Of
course this is all being done by donated time and computers so dropping
$2500 for two licenses made them balk. So I said why not put in some Macs
since they come with a screen reader for free. All I heard was crickets
chirping and then they said, we only use Windows. Good luck with that.
2. My company has a USB Jaws key which works nice when traveling with a
laptop. It even worked with Jaws running under Parallels on my MacBook.
There was still the usual video intercept issue but web browsing worked
just fine.
3. Speaking of video intercept, there have been updates to Jaws,
WindowsXP (SP3) and Parallels but I still get the same problem where the
Jaws video intercept clobbers the Parallels video and I have to reinstall
the Parallels Tools to get things running again. VMWare and Sun's Virtual
Box do not have this problem.
4. There was a question about Jaws lisc. transfers and how you had to pay
to do this. I couldn't find any info on Freedom's site so apparently they
don't make the process/fees information public. This is a bit unusual as
most software has a transferability section to the agreement which say
that if you turn over all the books, media, serial numbers and rights to
the software you can transfer it to somebody else. I guess as the
copyright owner FS has the right to limit what you can do with their
stuff. If they wanted to limit you to only running it on tall computers
with bumpy cases that would be their prerogative. Not a good idea, but
it's their stuff. Fees for transferring licenses also seems like a bad
idea, but it's their right to do that as well.
CB
Chelsea wrote:
So I guess it is best to trash it then. I am greatful I switched over to
the Good side. :D
On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Cara Quinn wrote:
OMG! I know this is OT, but D*MN what a scam this seems like! You
pay to buy, you pay to upgrade, and then pay again to sell?! lol!
This is crazy! -Buying / upgrading are understandable, but who in
their right mind would pay for the privilege of selling something like
this.
anyway, just my thoughts, and thanks for the laugh! lol!
Now, how to possibly make this Mac-related?… uh, let's see, -Glad VO
is free, and not caught up in this kind of racket?!…
Anyway, have a great day!…
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Jun 20, 2008, at 5:32 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
I'd love to offload mine too, but if you want to sell it or give it
away you have to pay a transfer fea, and in order to get the transfer
fea you have to upgrade to the latest version. Mine's 3.5 which shows
you how long it's been since I used it lol. I think I even threw out
the discs and manuals and just kept the serial number in case some one
ever wanted it.
Actually, I feel kind'a bad selling it to some one even though it
would be current bytime they got it because it's so terrible now and
so expensive. I just hate to do that to some one, lol.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 20-Jun-08, at 2:04 PM, Chelsea wrote:
Does anyone know of anyone who would want an older version of Jaws? I
have Jaws 6.0, and I am trying to get rid of it.
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