Hi Jois and all, I don't understand why this conversation persists, we are here on a Blinux list, and I think those who have enough about the immoral practices of monopolistic companies, have the choice to do like me: switching definitively to GNU/Linux, I am probably the one and only here in Belgium that had used Jaws at least 2 or 3 times, I switched from DOS to GNU/Linux, and except for the missing developments in Lynx, for the rest I am not missing M$, I say F... to M$ and to JFW$. Try like me to work 1 week with ONLY Linux, and try then a 2nd week, and after 3 weeks forget Jaws, continue for a month, learn to do things in another way, and after max. 3 months you will never go back to M$ and to JFW$. It's futile to tell about the restrictions in freedom that such commercial products bring, just change your live, DO SOMETHING, switch to FREE software and please rm -rf /mnt/win_c But don't monopolize this list with JFW, they don't need more free promotion, not at all, but sure not on a list which the subject IS NOT JFW$ Osvaldo. On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:18:03PM +0100, Jois wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list