-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Albert wrote: > Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 17:22 +0100 schrieb Thibault North: > > Hello, > Here are some news about Canon and our prefered OSes > Have a nice weekend, > Thibault North > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: News > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:15:06 +0100 > From: Thibault North <tno...@bluewin.ch> > To: canoscan5000f-...@gna.org > > Hello nobody :P > I've just had a phone with Canon, not the hotline that time ... > They are going to try and do something for the GNU/linux community. > I have insisted on the OpenSource aspect of the stuff, not to recieve a > binary driver for each scanner... > Problem seems to be from Canon Japan, which doesn't like to see specs > beeing published... > Anyway, we'll have news from them before February, I hope. > Thibault North
> Hi! > One question to Thibault first: With whom from which department of Canon > did you speak? (just interested) i don't really know which one, but I could speak with someone from Zurich (Switzerland) who was presented as someone working in a technical departement. He seemed sure to be able to do something if the Japanese Canon is a bit flexible. We spoke about HP (distributing free drivers) and about the GNU/Linux community, and he said he knew there was a lot of users to hear... But let's take all that carefully, nothing is won yet and it seems that these companies have a so complicated structure that making a move may be slow and unefficient. > I have experienced something quite similar. I phoned the marketing > director for Consumer Products of Canon Austria to ask him if he and his > company agreed with my MP750 support project (http://mp750.berlios.de). > He told me that due to Canon's company structure of mostly independent > national departments the technical specs needed to write drivers don't > make their way out of Tokio in general. Yes, exactly. The guy told me he was going to try and change that (seemed to have good contacts) > But he encouraged me to continue > my efforts, he pointed out Canon's and his own positive attitude to free > software. He couldn't offer me any further technical support though :-(. > I think that Canon is a positive example for an international > cooperation that is working efficiently, but managers seem to care about > their employees and customers. ( just my impression :-) ) Yes, exactly. He admitted they didn't hear a lot of their customers and I think they want to change that. Thanks, hope this won't fall once again...don't rejoice too quickly ! Have a nice weekend and happy end of year fests ! Thibault (Sorry for his english) > Thanks for all Thibault, please keep the sane-list up to date regarding > this topic. > Have a nice weekend, > Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDo01p6Xb3bo96D2URAg1LAJ98mO2KkOdl0cmYIdKH44otRzLcWACePj1U OlzL8OCNUkpzeLz8fCHGShc= =lcsz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
