Some companies try to actually compete for business and market share! May the best product for the customer win! What an innovative idea? Unfortunately, for all of us, some companies have a history of suing the competition. I guess the motto is if you can’t make better products, sue ‘em!
I am referring to Freedom Scientific! FS is suing GwMicro! First, many of you will remember that Freedom Scientific sued Serotek because of the name FreedomBox. Now Freedom Scientific is Suing GWMicro because of the new Window-Eyes 7.0 scripting, and place marker capabilities. These features are superior to Jaws’ scripting, and place marker offerings. See the GwMicro Blog Blog to read it yourself. So why can’t Freedom Scientific make a better place marker? Why can’t Freedom Scientific make a better venue for creation of scripts? Obviously, that last would be a serious undertaking, but few would argue the fact that Freedom Scientific is one of the largest Access Technology companies out there. We can probably safely say that lack of funds is not one of Freedom Scientifics’ largest problems.
So what exactly is Freedom Scientifics’ problem these days? More importantly, why try to crush the competition? I’d love to hear your comments on this one!
