Ahh, that's good to know. They were running WindowsXP Pro so maybe the
Jaws Pro licence isn't as flexible. At least they don't make this clear
on the freedom site. Thanks for the tip.
CB
Kevin Reeves wrote:
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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