Again, if freedom scientific straight out dropped the price to 100 dollars, plus 100 dollars per upgrade, not on some sort of special Americans only system, not on some tempoerary promo to one of their redistributors which has no guarantee to last, but a straight out "this is what you pay", I would be glad to give Jaws a try, and would probably find something I liked in Jaws enough to warrant paying that price for it.
This I'm afraid is the point I was trying to make.
Unfortunately, it seems Freedom scientific's answer to losing so many users to NVDA and all the many criticisms of inflated price, are to do these silly faux generous offers, whilst not actually changing their thinking that in 2020 a screen reading program should cost more than a user's entire desktop, ---- hell you could probably get two reasonably good desktops for the thousand dollars or so which is Jfw's usual price.
@turtlepower any employer who insists their employyees use Jaws should be footing the bill, or at least, having access to work or other such agencies foot it for them, though this is likely where the inflated Jaws monopoly started in the first place, though I am wondering how long it'll take before such agencies realise they're being taken for a ride.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)