My question is, how does FS actually benefit? Aren't most
litigations that a business takes place in for the sake of the $$$,
or the "bottom line," as it were? Instead of trying to defend GW
Micro which needs no defending because the litigation is ludicrous,
we should be asking what is in it for them. Ok, patents, and all
that, but if the profit margin is so low for screen reader
manufacturers and developers, why actually take a competitor to court
over such a trivial matter?Remember MicroSoft and Stacker? Who
actually won in that case, and how was the winner benefited? How can
FS come out smelling very nice after such a trial, or do they care at
all about their smell? Apparently not. I wonder how Ted Henter would
handle such a situation? Also, I wonder how JFW'S parent company
really is going to deal with the stink that will be thrown around the
courtroom about the trivial aspects of such a suit. Isn't any company
really interested in the $$$ to at least stay afloat, and any company
who engages in such trivial litigation is going to waste the $$$s
which will hurt all concerned. Reminds me of those huge record
companies suing college students for downloading music, but this is
much worse than that, where there, there is a gripe, certainly, but
not with a matter of "place markers," for crying out loud.
Ridiculous? Sheesh! How much code, as such, has to be duplicated in a
script that is like the code which implements the place markers in
jfw? Isn't it something like 75 percent? How close does one song have
to sound like another to garner the ire of the original writer, e.g.
Feels so Fine, and My Sweet Lord! You guys at GW-Micro will need
precedence and some direct evidence as to how your code does not in
any way or at least negative 75 percent of what freedom's code does,
whether script, or not. Proprietary rights are a difficult and gray
area to deal with, so again, I ask, how does FS benefit in the $$$
area. When we find out that, maybe we'll get a handle on how they're
going to handle themselves in the courtroom.
Now, which blindness organization will jump on or in which band
wagon, as it were? I sincerely hope that every one will look at
factual evidence, and not $$$s to judge which camp to fall into. It
is always unfortunate when the big guy sues the little guy, when the
little guy's product is actually a good one, even better than the big
guy's product in many ways. People always suspect the big guy of
being afraid of competition and trying to force the little guy out of
business, so they can afford bigger cars, more vacations, and a huge
increase of $$$, but the question is, how much actual $$$ are we talking about?
If we all contributed, let's say $50 a piece for the defense fund, it
would hardly make a difference in the way GW-Micro is going to pay
for the defense of their product and actual innovations, and so, how
many of us can afford to financially help GW-Micro, compared to a
similar slice of Johnny Q Public pie where many more of our age
groups members have jobs? Damned few, I wager, again, unfortunate.
How many of us will be hurt because of this suit? All of us, no
doubt, so we should find a way to do a composite law suit against FS
for stopping forward progress in the screen development market.
Sandra, being an attorney, take a close look into the aspects if you
would of doing just that, of all of us who would, sign a paper as
plaintiffs against Freedom Scientific for, trivial use of court
process, (I am sure you can think of a better way to put it), and for
damaging the forward progress of a burgeoning market place, by
fruitless litigation.
Place marks! I ask you!
Curtis Delzer
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