I Kieran,
well, I totally agree with you, I am in a still worse situation: here in
Italy JAWS is sold with a hardware protection (dongle), exactly Rainbow USB
SuperPro, because they integrated a new human-sounding speech synthesizer,
Actor, that for the license needs a hardware protection. And I heard that
after Jaws 4.5x versions, the dongle will be the new protection system in
America too, this because Freedom Scientific wants to have a unique
protection for its products, Open Book and Jaws.
I said, my situation is even worse than yours: here at work I have the
hardware protection, at home I have the software one. In February 2002 I
bought my new notebook and installed the software protection, from my
original disk and worked with no trouble till April. Then, I got some
errors in the registry and thought to reformat my hard drive. I checked my
original diskette to see if I could get the license back, reformat and then
re-install it... well, it said: no authorization found. In my other PC, the
big one, it perfectly worked. Then I backupped the original key with 4
installations using teledisk, and I got the surprise: the copied disk
worked! But only once. Then I changed my floppy drive, but the problem
persists. Neither in Windows nor in Linux, my computer can read the side 0.
So, I can not reformat otherwise I lose my license and can not install it
any longer, I'd be forced to pay about 200 Euro for the dongle. No no
thanks... Unless I am really forced by essential screen reader's updates, I
will NOT buy anything. Now the only thing I bought is a new hard disk for
my portable computer, where I put my wonderful Linux and my wonderful
Brltty and I use Linux, but I have still problems connecting to Internet
with that Operating System, so I must be still patient till my colleague
helps me configuring the ADSL.
Kieran, you have all my help.
And with this message, I'd like to close this off topic thread.
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