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Yep, that has always been JAWS' position. However, it doesn't explain
how companies like Serotek and NV Access keep sending out upgrades and
updates without charging additional money for System Access, or NVDA.
They are not Microsoft either, but they have a more moral approach. I
could see paying small upgrade fees for major updates, but this policy
of paying $1,100 up front, then several hundred dollars every single
year to update is solely based on the fact that they have lots of
government contracts who don't mind paying it. Though it is an advanced
screen reader, it isn't perfect. It is bloated, sometimes over
complicated, and deffinitely over priced. When they were a tiny start
up as Henter Joyce, I could see how they had to charge a lot. But,
though they are not Microsoft, they are not small either. They have 70
percent of the world screen reader market and are plenty big enough to
charge a reasonable fee. And, for the record, the blind screen reader
market is not all that small. That is a red herring.
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