Hi Rick,
I debated writing you off-list on this, but thought that others might want
to chime in on this also.
You stated in your moderator's message that Eric and other representatives
of Jaws join this list and others like it to get a feel for how their
products are being received.
I don't mind that, as I know several lists that have that going on also, but
the fact is, how can they get an accurate response to how their products are
doing out there if we're only going to discuss the program's positive notes.
That would be like a company offering a feedback or opinions forum to their
website, then editing the content so that only positive opinions were
displayed.
The fact is, we were not debating FS company policy, we were offering our
opinion on the 64 bit version of Jaws, and it's lack of support for XP.
Should we all simply comment to the effect that yippee, let's all go out and
convert from XP to Vista, because that's where Jaws is heading?
Should we all simply forego all our computers in favour of a new computer
that will handle Vista, simply because we want to take advantage of the 64
bit architecture, again, because Jaws will not support XP's version of the
64 bit architecture?
I'm sorry, but I cannot sit back and let Eric think that everyone on this
list approves of this move, as it kind of leaves those of us who prefer XP
out.
If we want to give Eric an accurate representation of how Jaws is being
received by it's users, one should not allow him to gauge that reception
from this list, but solely from the feedback forms on their site, and only
from those who wish to give their opinions of their products.
I'm not sure if this makes sense or not.
All I know is that we cannot just allow everyone to let Eric think that
everyone on the list approves of this, and I think this is the easiest way
of showing this, not having to take the extra step of going to their
website, finding the feedback form, filling it out and pressing the submit
button, or what ever it's labelled.
If Eric monitors this list for how we, as a community receive FS products,
or Jaws in particular, then let him get the whole picture, and not just the
positive picture with all the roses and flowers.
Again, this is only my opinion, and I apologize if this goes against some of
your philosophies on the list, but I feel this action of limiting our
feedback in one sense, while allowing certain other feedback a bit of an
oxymoron.
I would also submit, that if we discuss the 64 bit version of Jaws, isn't
that also like discussing FS policy also, since we are only speculating on
what the new version offers?
I don't know, it's still early and I haven't had my coffee. Smile.
Victor
Co-moderator
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