The way these things should work is that Microsoft
licenses let's say JAWS or WE as their official screen reader.
It comes with every version of WindowsXYZ sold. The company
doing the actual screen reader work is treated as a contractor
and gets so much per copy of Windows sold as royalties. That
model is quite common in intellectual property dealings and it
would probably be more than Freedom or Humanware presently is
able to yank out of the blindness community.
I totally understand the shark-tank atmosphere that exists with
the present model. These companies lead a hard-scrabble
existance because of that economy of scale issue.
The idea of putting a copy of JAWS or Window-Eyes in
every installation of Windows sold would fix a lot of issues for
end users so why not just do it? Presently, the idea is to
assume that everybody is stealing until proven otherwise. Some
people are stealing, but most are probably innocent of doing
anything more than running afoul of some technical glitch that
ate their code or caused their computer to appear to now have a
different identity.
Martin
Dane Trethowan writes:
> I did some simple calculations and - unless I'm doing something radically
> wrong - then it seems to me that a company called GW Micro would have to
> sell a high volume of product or sell at a fairly high price in order to
> pay their staff and I think the figures speak for themselves.
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