[gui-talk] JAWS and Window Eyes Now Owned By the Same Company

[Gerald Levy]

Keep in mind that John Blake, the CEO of VFO was formerly president of 
Freedom Scientific, so it is obvious which screen reader he prefers. 
Besidee, he is probably still smarting over the embarrassing lawsuit FS lost 
a few years ago against GW Micro for copyright infringement for 
incorporating place markers in Window Eyes without authorization, and what 
better way to exact sweet revenge by purchasing the company that owns Window 
Eyes and getting rid of it once and for all.

Gerald


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-----Original Message----- 
From: Ray Foret jr via gui-talk
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:48 PM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Cc: Ray Foret jr
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] JAWS and Window Eyes Now Owned By the Same Company

I am afraid I agree with your speculation about Window-eyes being fazed out 
in consequence of this acquisition.  Even though I was a JAWS user back in 
my windows days, I’d hate to see window-eyes go away like it looks like it 
might now.  If this benefits anybody, I suspect we can predict that the 
folks over at NVDA will soon be quite happy as they will gain quite a few 
thousand users now.


Sent from my Mac, The only computer with full accessibility for the blind 
built-in

Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user!!!!!

> On Jun 15, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Gerald Levy via gui-talk 
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>
> For those of you who may have missed this bombshell, VFO, the parent 
> company of Freedom Scientific, which markets JAWS, has acquired AI 
> Squared, which markets the rival screen reader, Window Eyes.  This 
> development does not bode well for Window Eyes users, because such mergers 
> invaribly lead to consolidation of products and services to reduce costs 
> and eliminate competition, and Window Eyes, having the smaller market 
> share than JAWS is likely to be phased out and its users transitioned to 
> JAWS, although this is just speculation on my part.  But it would make no 
> economic sense for VFO to continue marketing and supporting two 
> essentially similar screen readers.  .  And with System Access already on 
> life support and its future uncertain, the demise of Window Eyes would 
> leave JAWS with a virtual monopoly in the commercial screen reader market, 
> which could lead to even higher prices.  On the other hand, JAWS might 
> eventually incorporate features from Window Eyes that it does not already 
> offer, making it more attractive.  For more details:
>
> http://www.blindbargains.com/rss/latest.xml
>
> Gerald
>
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