Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: > But in particular to get good results with limited resources > and/or when not having sufficiently competent people on board,
The less resources you have, the more competent they should be... > it looks more than reasonable at least for me to simply ask > the SANE developers and/or the Linux distributors. Naaaaah, releasing the specs would be waaaaay too easy, come on! >>> and never ever get the great new idea to simply ask >>> the SANE developers and/or the well known persons at the >>> Linux distributors who work regading "scanners". >> >> And that last part about asking /may/ have some cultural implications. > > I think this is actually the root cause. > From my point of view this means that they must have > some kind of company policy that somehow forbids to ask > (probably not an explicitely written ban). I wasn't focusing on corporate issues here, but it's also valid. > The good news is that this makes it clear for end-users > which manufacturers they can choose when they like to buy > a scanner or all-in-one device with Linux support. Yeah, it's really simple. Pick any device supported by SANE for which the manufacturer does not try to provide a driver. Because when they do, it's crap, either proprietary crap or opensource crap. (*cough* hplip *cough*) JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
