[sane-devel] Sane is definately not Scanner Access Now Easy

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:03 am, Thomas Niesel wrote:
>Hi Henning
>..cut
>
>> Maybe I got something wrong here but this is the story how I
>> see it:
>>
>> * You want to use a scanner made by a manufacturer who doesn't
>> provide drivers for your operating system
>> * the standard drivers that (most likely) come with your os
>> don't support your scanner (other operating systems don't even
>> have scanner drivers shipped with them)
>> * someone wrote a driver for your scanner without beeing paid
>> by you or the manufacturer of the scanner. He even lets you
>> access his development tree before the release is done and
>> before it's in your distribution's package system.
>> * you have quite a few questions about installation and
>> running. Quite some of them could have been solved by looking
>> at the documentation. Others result from compiling software on
>> your own (and would have existed with any other package)
>> * About 10 people, quite some of them developers of the SANE
>> system you use, try to help in several ways. These are not
>> paid support people but the ones that actively use the code or
>> even created it. * Your scanner works now.
>>
>> Probably tens or hundreds of hours have been spent to write a
>> driver *for you* (and others). Hours have been spent by people
>> trying to help *you*.
>>
>> And despite of all this you are constantly complaining about
>> SANE and Linux.
>>
>> I will never understand this.
>
>...cut
>
>Yepp, great answer !
>Some poeple coming from $WinSucks dont even think about this and
> maybe should stay with that OS and call these _very_ cheap
> hotlines after paying for a peace of hardware to get it
> running...
>
>Do you have a copyright on this ???
>
>I like to use it for other mailing-lists if you dont mind...
>
>Thomas

I agree. All that mule skinnin, and not one single expletive to 
delete.  Of such are works of art made.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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