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From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Software speech opinions
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:43:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <026001c7b7ac$7a18ebe0$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070626042409.GA25331@cm.nu>

It is a free country, and in the name of good capitalism, people have the 
right to create anything legal and sell it.
It is just a shame that the poorest group of individuals have to be kept 
down by having to pay 5 to 10 times for a product that the sighted  have 
access to.
We are an "easy target" for a developer out there, and they pat themselves 
on the back telling themselves that they have done such a good thing, by 
creating a product that allows us access, and indeed, they may not be making 
any more than if they had created a slightly popular product for the 
sighted, but they could contribute more to society by contributing in an 
open-source environment, and not try to see themselves as altruistic, or 
otherwise great slayers to the so called plight of the Blind.
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@cm.nu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: Software speech opinions


On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:15:58PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> I don't like to see profit made on the backs of the disabled.
> I believe in capitalism, I would have to, as I have a Bachelor's degree in
> Business management, but profit should be made on things like lawn mowers,
> not on products which allow the disabled to use off-the-shelf products.
> Indeed, greed is at play here, and I look forward to the future of
> "Open-Source".

I really don't have a problem paying for software I use be
it to make otherwise usable software accessible or simply
to get a job done.  As far as I'm concerned, the makers of
access tech can charge any amount they'd like.  If it's too
expensive, people will either not use it or more likely
develope their own solutions which doesn't hurt opensource
in the slightest.

Not trying to justify closed source software at all as the
key advantage of open source for me anyway isn't its free
of charge nature but rather for the ability to modify it to
suit my needs.

For those who think prices are inflated by the greedy
corporation, if that were the case and so much profit was
being made in the area, why haven't other firms entered the
market, driving prices down as a result?

S

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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Keith Hinton
 ` Jan Buchal
 ` Doug Sutherland
   ` Gaijin
     ` Doug Sutherland
       ` C.M. Brannon
         ` Travis Siegel
           ` Glenn Ervin
           ` Doug Sutherland
       ` Gaijin
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Gaijin
             ` Doug Smith
           ` Doug Sutherland
             ` Gaijin
           ` Glenn Ervin
             ` Doug Sutherland
               ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` Steve Holmes
     [not found]             ` <20070626042409.GA25331@cm.nu>
               ` Glenn Ervin [this message]
                 ` John Heim
                   ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
                     ` John Heim
                       ` Glenn Ervin
                       ` Scott Berry
                         ` John Heim
                           ` Scott Berry
                       ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
               ` Doug Sutherland
                 ` Doug Sutherland
                   ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` John Heim
                   ` Butch Bussen
               ` John Heim

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