Time is not what I have plenty of and I guess a lot of other people does not have this :-(
A simple suggestion that I would think would make it seem easier to do: set default values and treat every scanner as old or unmarked until someone adds valid data. Then you have 0 scanners to fill in data for! Problem solved! ;-) On the other hand, every NEW scanner should be added with the extra data.That is much simpler. Then perhaps also create interfaces that computer stores could use to lookup if the specific modell is usable in linux. Every lookup would also mean that you know that that scanner is currently available... Perhaps talking to the people at linux printing, linux on laptops or other linux hardware pages to work against a common interface?
