From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Software speech opinions
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:16:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070625031627.GC32366@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467EBEE3.7050609@clearwire.net>
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I personally feel, and I don't think I'm alone, that the rnd cost
recovery excuse goes only so far. True, rnd costs might have been an
issue in the beginning, along with the size of the market the products
are aimed at, but let's take for example the screen reader
manufacturers for the other popular os. With the kinds of prices they
charge, and given the large amount of sails they've most likely made
over their product's lifetime, I would have thought they've recovered
their rnd costs long, long ago, and then some. No, I think that what's
driving prices of A.T. for the most part these days is pure and simple
greed, not to mention that these companies' biggest customer is the
U.S. government, and that it has deep pockets to boot, from the
perspective of the companies.
Greg
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 07:58:43PM +0100, Gaijin wrote:
> I can understand that. We're such a small market that it's
> necessary to charge so much to recoup the expense of making the stuff.
> It's relativity. For every action, there's an equal and opposite
> reaction, and someone is gonna starve. That's why I feel like Linux is
> so special. People freely offer what we now have, without really
> depriving little Cindy of what's on her dinner plate. Money doesn't
> even enter the picture.
>
> Michael
>
>
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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 [this message]
` Gaijin
` Doug Smith
` Doug Sutherland
` Gaijin
` Glenn Ervin
` Doug Sutherland
` Glenn Ervin
` Steve Holmes
[not found] ` <20070626042409.GA25331@cm.nu>
` Glenn Ervin
` 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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