> > Actually, HP and VA Linux are sponsoring people to write GPL drivers for
> > their HP printers (deskjet and laserjet). They're releasing soon 44
> > drivers for those printers..
>
> Actually, the person who made pnm2ppa, worked alone without any support
> from HP. Very nice of them to agree to release these drivers, but it
> already exists.
Yes, I know about this driver (I have a friend which has the same printer and
uses this driver under Linux)
>
> You know what I just thought of - HP could be sponsoring these drivers in
> order to 'rule' the hp drivers for linux, while there are 'pirate' drivers
> in the market right now, which work JUST GREAT. I'm sure they don't like
> it.
Why do you think they don't like it? did he steal code from someone? so he
did it without the docs. OK. So? So my USB camera (Logitech Quickcam Color
Express USB) wasn't working with Linux and Logitech didn't want to release
the spec, but now some hacked it and I have it working and Logitech knows
about it. Is this thing bad? no
>
> > So you see again, Oren, money here HELPS to create open source drivers!
>
> It didn't help. he created it on his own time without their money or
> support, just support of other open source programmers.
At that time, yes, they didn't help. Thats true.
Also, once the drivers will be out - you might want to replace your current
driver. The new driver will support your parallel port read back (IEEE 1284),
and wiill give it the same features as the Windows driver have (and lets hope
- more stability then their windows version. They get great printers, but
very bad drivers in Windows).
> About all that sponsoring stuff you wrote me here and in the letter before
> - Tell me, how do RedHat and Mandrkae also sponsor so many projects, while
> they release their distro to the market and to their ftps just about the
> same time ? What I don't like with suse, that they act too much in a
> commercial way, while their compatitors don't.
SuSE is a private company who specialize in porting (they're the first who
did the S/390 Linux distribution port, the RS/6000 Linux port etc), and they
decided to suspend ISO image few months after they release their product.
Some will like it, some don't. It's their right after all - it's their
product.
>
> Besides, you talk like the whole open source community is sponsored by
> these companies. I know very few open source projects which are sponsored.
KDE - partly sponsored
GNOME - massively sponsored
XFree - massively sponsored
USB - Massively sponsored
FIre Wire - Massively sponsored
Source Forge itself - totally sponsored
Apache - Massively sponsored
SAMBA - Massively sponsored
GCC - Partly sponsored
Various architecture Linux port - Massively sponsored
And thats just a small list of project which are either partly or massively
sponsored by SuSE, Mandrake and partly Redhat (SuSE are the biggest sponsor
of open source project).
Hetz
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