On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:03 am, Thomas Niesel wrote: >Hi Henning >..cut > >> Maybe I got something wrong here but this is the story how I >> see it: >> >> * You want to use a scanner made by a manufacturer who doesn't >> provide drivers for your operating system >> * the standard drivers that (most likely) come with your os >> don't support your scanner (other operating systems don't even >> have scanner drivers shipped with them) >> * someone wrote a driver for your scanner without beeing paid >> by you or the manufacturer of the scanner. He even lets you >> access his development tree before the release is done and >> before it's in your distribution's package system. >> * you have quite a few questions about installation and >> running. Quite some of them could have been solved by looking >> at the documentation. Others result from compiling software on >> your own (and would have existed with any other package) >> * About 10 people, quite some of them developers of the SANE >> system you use, try to help in several ways. These are not >> paid support people but the ones that actively use the code or >> even created it. * Your scanner works now. >> >> Probably tens or hundreds of hours have been spent to write a >> driver *for you* (and others). Hours have been spent by people >> trying to help *you*. >> >> And despite of all this you are constantly complaining about >> SANE and Linux. >> >> I will never understand this. > >...cut > >Yepp, great answer ! >Some poeple coming from $WinSucks dont even think about this and > maybe should stay with that OS and call these _very_ cheap > hotlines after paying for a peace of hardware to get it > running... > >Do you have a copyright on this ??? > >I like to use it for other mailing-lists if you dont mind... > >Thomas
I agree. All that mule skinnin, and not one single expletive to delete. Of such are works of art made. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.5+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
