haha you know, and I am sorry to put it as an example, (you could skip down some lines if you wanted another example though) if we check NVDA, which does have specific periodic release deadlines in place, just like any other serious software company in the world, we have:
1. 10 new features
Some of them are reporting things, others are supporting NEW braille displays, or at least new controls for them, others are enhancements to things already in place, (automatic detection of braille displays), others support NEW things that windows 10 has to offer like dictation, emoji panel (who would not want to use that nowadays that we are being more and more social) and so on.
2. 9 changes. Those have to do with doing actually something productive like updating liblouis, adding braille tables, facilitating the selection of languages.
3. An impressive ammount of bug fixes, 20!
they even talk about the windows October update... and oh look, its 18 september 2018.
Tons of stuff, and this has happened in roughly 4 months!
and they rightly call this version 2018.3, NOT NVDA 2019 public beta. What a shame. I hope fs slaves are actually reading these forums. Or maybe not.. maybe its good they will keep ignoring happily retired customers like myself since they business model gives them so much sustainability and importance around the world with so so so so many charitable deeds they have of course NOT done.
Right, if you wanted a different comparison because you are terribly sick of the screen reader that is known for sounding like a frog on steroids when it first came out (right, eSpeak also had been updated in this latest one)
then lets look at cockos reaper, whose owner was the author of the winamp software we all loved and some of us continue to love, it miraculously, amazingly and rightly works like a snap in windows 10 and was discontinued almost 13 years back, would you believe it? But this is about their audio workstation, reaper:
Reaper this year has had about 15 updates. 15! from january of this year. And, unless something really critical or annoying does not let minorities like us blind folks work, they actually go and fix it anyway
and change logs usually do have over 15 or 20 items for each 0.01 version number. SO, actually I feel that its pretty much the best 60 dollars i have spent. This company really makes me feel valued as a customer. They also call their latest release reaper 5.95 and not reaper 6 public beta. Hmm, I do really wonder why...
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