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". Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:16 PM Subject: Re: Software speech opinions -----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 at 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 at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGfzOL7s9z/XlyUyARAklZAJ9vS+K7Si62iGATtamZBl0DhtdXUwCeP17E UBhj3h0aoqYObOeRdjTYkIs= =nVqI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
