Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> writes: > >> Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> writes: >> >> # Thanks for maintaining Debian's emacs! > > No problem. > >> The epkowa backend also does not support this model at the moment. >> There is talk about adding support for it through a /non-free/ >> binary only plugin, but there is no schedule yet. > > Hmm, so is this scanner not likely to end up with good free-software > support? In general, I had the impression that Epson scanners were > often pretty well supported, but it sounds like you're suggesting this > model might be different.
Let's be clear about this. It is unlikely to the extreme that this scanner will end up with any free-as-in-speech software support. However, it likely that this scanner will end up with gratis support on i386 architectures. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
