St?phane VOLTZ <stef...@modulonet.fr> wrote: > I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will > be able > to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under linux. It > is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the so-called > 'linux desktop'.
And you're completely WRONG. What drivers are you going to get with your scanner for Linux ? Binary-only i386 crappy proprietary drivers written in C++ ? 1. this won't help non-i386 users 2. there are no TWAIN applications for Linux (yet) 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken at some point by an ABI change (because, yes, that's going to happen AGAIN). 4. as the drivers will basically go unmaintained after a year, and the source won't be released anyway, you'll be stuck with an unusable scanner. Looks like an improvement to me, indeed. Did you read the code Mustek sent to Henning ? No ? You should. That's what you'll get with your scanner. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <j...@jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
