[nfbcs] Jaws and activations

[Nicole Torcolini]

Unless I misunderstand something, you are initially given three activations,
and there is nothing stopping you from putting that on three different.
However, all of those machines are supposed to belong to you. If you were to
ask for a fourth activation for putting JAWS on a fourth machine, I would
think that would be pushing it, but asking for more activations because of
software/hardware problems is certainly allowed, and they have never given
me any grief about it. As far as I can remember, as long as I supplied a
reason, I was given more activations; no questions asked. And, yes, I do
have JAWS installed on two different machines, but one just sits in storage
most of the time as it is my emergency backup.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of I. C. Bray
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:11 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Jaws and activations

Not to sound overly critical of something I'm just now learning to use /
appreciate, but that is kinda silly.
First of all, the darn program is extreemely expensive... and as a retired
System's Analyst, I still like to drag old boxes out of the closet and
tinker...
Plus, I have a coterie of younger college student friends who pick my brain
on old hardware, and legacy operating systems.  It'd be nice to have some
functionality to allow me to hot-swap a usb drive to use on any machine I
happen to find myself in front of...

Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Jaws and activations


> You can run on two systems, just not at the same time.  They will 
> generally give people more keys without complaint, as their picky 
> authorization process eats them up when you make small hardware changes.
>
> Dave
>
> At 12:53 PM 8/29/2013, you wrote:
>>Hello:
>>I had a quick question.
>>I was curious what the Jaws license allows in terms of the number of 
>>personal computers and virtual machines that it is installed on. I've 
>>explained that I have it installed on my school laptop and my personal 
>>desktop to Freedomscientific people and they seemed okay with it. Just 
>>recently though, I've been doing some upgrades--my desktop got upgraded 
>>(and might again soon), as did my laptop. Along with these upgrades I had 
>>to install Jaws on the school laptop which used my final activation, then 
>>my laptop got an upgrade in ram--apparently even adding more ram breaks 
>>the authorization. The person I speak to had a super long silence before 
>>he asked me why I wanted more activations, in a tone that suggested I had 
>>personally insulted him or something. He gave them to me, then basically 
>>hung up. it's not really the first time I got that sort of attitude 
>>either. Is there something up with FS staff and activations? Should I not 
>>be running jaws on two systems?
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>>Take care,
>>Ty
>>http://tds-solutions.net
>>He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he 
>>that dares not reason is a slave.
>
>
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