I am tired of waiting to see what happens. I am going to take action.

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> On Jun 14, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Dennis Long via Talk 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Let's just wait and see what happens.  We don't know the inner workings of
> the agreement.
> 
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> On Behalf Of Reeva Webb via Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:25 PM
> To: Doug Geoffray; Window-Eyes Discussion List
> Subject: Re: VFO acquisition of Ai Squared
> 
> "nobody will be abandoned or taken advantage of" I respect you a lot and
> it's great that your optimistic about this, as far as I'm concerned
> lollollollollollollol I'll believe it when I see it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Doug Geoffray via Talk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I wanted to chime in here and give my personal thoughts to the 
>> bombshell released today regarding VFO (the parent company of Freedom 
>> Scientific and Optelec) acquiring Ai Squared.  And by bombshell, I 
>> don't mean a bad thing, I just mean it is shocking and unexpected news.
>> 
>> I know this may seem scary to many people.  I know that we have a 
>> great number of extremely loyal customers who may be feeling betrayed. 
>> There are lots of legit concerns and questions that I'm sure come to 
>> everyone's minds.  But honestly, nobody knows the answers at this 
>> point.  We are just starting the discussions internally of how best to 
>> take all our new resources, talent, products, etc. and meld them 
>> together to give the best customer experience.  For the next 6 months 
>> or so, it will be business as usual. After the 6 months, who knows at 
>> this point but I can guarantee the customers will benefit from the
> results.
>> Nobody will be abandoned or taken advantage of, etc.  I'm very 
>> impressed with John Blake (CEO of VFO).  I truly believe John is in 
>> this for the customer.
>> 
>> Personally, I'm extremely excited with the possibilities.  Think about 
>> it, we now have all the best minds in this industry under one roof.
>> Instead of us duplicating resources, we can combine them and inovate.
>> Although Freedom has been our number one competitor since Dan and I 
>> started GW Micro in 1990, I've always had great respect for their 
>> engineers.  Okay, I've had questions about their corporate leadership, 
>> a certain lawsuit comes to mind (smile), but that was a completely 
>> different leadership team.  That was a different owner and a different 
>> CEO.  Vector has an outstanding reputation.  John Blake has shown 
>> great leadership and concern for the customer. Under this new 
>> leadership and available resources, I'm ready to take that and do 
>> whatever it takes to have the best possible solutions for our 
>> customers, for every low vision and blind person out there.
>> 
>> People may be concerned about lack of competition causing innovation 
>> and quality to suffer.  Nothing can be further from the truth. There 
>> is still plenty of competition out there, including free options but 
>> we have the determination and drive, starting at the corporate level 
>> all they way down to provide the best quality products, hands down.  
>> Yes, this will take some time to prove but I'm hoping that everyone 
>> out there will give us that opportunity. Again, I'm putting everything 
>> I have into this venture and I wouldn't do that if I didn't believe in it.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Doug
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