Actually, that's not quite correct. FS made a large 7 figure donation to the NFB to get them to make that request. FS has paid off the NFB several times to have resolutions passed as well as to write hit pieces against companies who included screen reading facilities directly in their own OS. -----Original Message----- From: Tod Fassl Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 3:00 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows 8 You know that about 10 years ago, the National Federation of the Blind asked Microsoft to stop improving narrator. They were afraid it would drive Freedom Scientific and GW Micro out of business. I thought that was a poor decision even at the time. But now with the emergence of nvda and voiceOver, it looks even worse. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins