From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I2f4U-0001Ad-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:16:58 -0400 Received: (qmail 952 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jun 2007 20:16:27 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:16:27 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Software speech opinions Message-ID: <20070625031627.GC32366@localhost.localdomain> References: <467EA927.2030006@clearwire.net> <044601c7b68e$af6f59b0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> <467EBEE3.7050609@clearwire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <467EBEE3.7050609@clearwire.net> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:16:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGfzOL7s9z/XlyUyARAklZAJ9vS+K7Si62iGATtamZBl0DhtdXUwCeP17E UBhj3h0aoqYObOeRdjTYkIs= =nVqI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----