Hi, Why shouldn't they want to make money? Its a company, not a not for profit agency after all. The people that work there can't feed themselves on the gratitude of blind people. Now, should they price gouge? Of course not. But to admit you want to make money is no bad thing in my eyes.
JMO. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Gigi <gigifi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Hi guys > It really bothers me that a company that makes specialized software would > make a remark about not doing software for us totally blind folks because > they couldn't make any money on it. First of all, I have a real problem that > there is a special software for the totally blind folks, and another software > for others. But they really need, is Kurzweil 4000, to combine everything. I > see no reason why they can't do it. It seems to me, they just don't want to. > Besides, if one is a partially sighted person, and they buy an expensive > program that they can use with their vision, and their vision gets worse, > then they have to spend big bucks to get a different program. I see no reason > why the disabled community should support that kind of attitude. > Regards > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:45 PM, "David Tanner" <david.tanner...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, Kurzweil upgrades are quite reasonable. Regardless of what version of >> the software you have the upgrade price is $125. So, if you are at version >> 6 you can go all the way to version 12 for $125 and if there is a new >> version within a year I believe that you get it for free, but don't take >> that for absolute fact . I am not a Kurzweil dealor and I may be wrong on >> the free upgrade to the next version if it comes out within less than a >> year. But I do know the upgrade price is $125. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <br...@hostany.net> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:00 PM >> Subject: Re: A Question Regarding OCR >> >> >>> No, I haven't upgraded in many years, didn't think the accuracy of OCR >>> really improved all that much necessarily, only used it for scanning mail >>> once in awhile, but all in one printers sure scan slower than any scanner >>> I've used before. I wish I knew where I put the big box that probably had >>> version 6 in it, but if it's like Jaws or anything else I'll end up with a >>> new disk when I purchase the upgrade. I hope those are still reasonable yet. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tanner" >>> <david.tanner...@gmail.com> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:21 PM >>> Subject: Re: A Question Regarding OCR >>> >>> >>>> It is alive and well... Do you have version 12 patch 4? That is the >>>> latest release and there is some support for at least one digital camera >>>> in that patch upgrade. >>>> >>>> As far as Kurzweil 1000 on the Mac; the news isn't good. There is >>>> Kurzweil3000 for the Mac, but the folks at Cambian Learning don't think >>>> they can make enough profit on us blind folks so they say they will not >>>> release a version for Apple because if every blind person baught a copy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
