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<title>sane-devel: Re: Sane drivers</title>
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<h1>Re: Sane drivers</h1>
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<b>Matthias Gamisch</b> (<a href="mailto:vp00955@pop.vpn.at"><i>vp00955@pop.vpn.at</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:49:24 +0100</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0060.html">Petter Reinholdtsen: "Small patches for SANE 1.01 pre4"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0058.html">Bernd Schroeder: "Re: microtek scanmaker again :-("</a>
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<li> <b>Maybe in reply to:</b> <a href="0021.html">Bert Bakker: "Sane drivers"</a>
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<li> <b>Next in thread:</b> <a href="0065.html">Oliver Rauch: "Re: Sane drivers"</a>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 Trip Lilley wrote:<br>
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<i>> And we, as a community, have a lot to learn yet about how to best convince</i><br>
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<i>> people to join us. I believe we will make much more headway with Microtek</i><br>
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<i>> if we can explain to them the benefits of releasing driver details without</i><br>
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<i>> the encumberance of non-disclosure agreements. If we can collect</i><br>
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<i>> statistics about our users, testimonials as to why they use brand X</i><br>
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<i>> scanners with SANE, and what they'd ideally use, if drivers existed, we</i><br>
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<i>> can do more to sway Microtek and others.</i><br>
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I absolutely agree to that. Free and Open Source Software has reached a <br>
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point where it becomes interesting for (experienced?) Windoze-users too. <br>
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Step-by-step they are getting into Linux (as the most commonly used i <br>
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suppose), and many of them into SANE too. I don't think that we need <br>
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a "take-it-or-leave-it" attitude (that's how I understood what Hugo wrote), <br>
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we need a open base for everyone interested (users AND manufacturers of <br>
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course, although there might be some misunderstandings in the beginning).<br>
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Concerning the testimonials: I am currently using a UMAX Astra 1200 S with <br>
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Sane 1.0.0 (as far as I can remember ;-) on a SGI PI 4D/35 with IRIX 5.3 <br>
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and it really works fine (a perfect example of the great work SANE <br>
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developers do, I think). As I share this scanner with a friend, I already <br>
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thought about buying another one. I would look for a UMAX device again, <br>
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although the Microtek devices seem quite interesting. But the UMAX devices <br>
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seem to have a better documentation than the Microtek ones, therefore the <br>
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backend causes less troubles (this point of view is not adressed to the <br>
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developers but to the manufacturers of course ). If I am spending up to 200 <br>
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Euros for a scanner, I would like to be sure that I can use it without <br>
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limitation on a Linux- or Unix-platform, and I think that this is a very <br>
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common point of view.<br>
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I can't believe that manufacturers like Microtek will close <br>
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there eyes to the fact of a growing OS-Community - or will they???<br>
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Matthias<br>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0060.html">Petter Reinholdtsen: "Small patches for SANE 1.01 pre4"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0058.html">Bernd Schroeder: "Re: microtek scanmaker again :-("</a>
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<li> <b>Maybe in reply to:</b> <a href="0021.html">Bert Bakker: "Sane drivers"</a>
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<li> <b>Next in thread:</b> <a href="0065.html">Oliver Rauch: "Re: Sane drivers"</a>
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