Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages >> from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner

Re: brother printer/scanners

Nicolas George writes: > Part of the development have been outsourced and the contract does not > allow allow to distribute the source code, or even does not provide it > to the main company. This is very likely. They may not have even outsourced any work: just purchased a license for some "IP":

Re: brother printer/scanners

Le quintidi 15 nivôse, an CCXXV, Jape Person a écrit : > I really don't understand what Brother et. al. expect to gain from this > obstinance. It's certain that the source or close relatives thereof is "out > there" and, one presumes, available. It's not the crown jewels or trade > secrets. It's

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/04/2017 01:57 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 04 Jan 2017 at 13:19:43 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote: Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner software and co-operate with SANE developers; Brother don't seem to, although they do have

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Wed 04 Jan 2017 at 13:19:43 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote: > > >Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner > >software and co-operate with SANE developers; Brother don't seem to, > >although they do have drivers for some scanners

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 22:11:26 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 01/02/2017 06:50 PM, Brian wrote: Could be. The license for printer and scanner drivers says you can modify, alter, translate, reproduce and distribute their software. Sounds good. Doesn't Debian

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 22:11:26 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > On 01/02/2017 06:50 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >Could be. The license for printer and scanner drivers says you can > >modify, alter, translate, reproduce and distribute their software. > >Sounds good. Doesn't Debian say that too? > > Yeah, I

Re: brother printer/scanners

Woops. Corrections below: On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > (Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p > > Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes > forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the > convenient thing.) > > On

Re: brother printer/scanners

Hi, Joel. Just to clear up a point of confusion (mine) -- when you say you got those debs (brscan4, etc.) from the repos, do you mean Debian repositories? I don't see anything like that there. If you're referring to Ubuntu repos, then that's another matter. I can't (won't) use those with a

Re: brother printer/scanners

(Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the convenient thing.) On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/01/17 13:38, Joel Rees

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/02/2017 07:16 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Any progress on this? Which device is

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/02/2017 06:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 10:55:06 -0500, Jape Person wrote: In the end, voting with my dollars accomplished nothing for the FOSS community, because I simply couldn't find a functional equivalent that was free all the way. After a while I just got tired of the

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages > from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner > still isn't being found. Any progress on this? Which device is it?

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 10:55:06 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > In the end, voting with my dollars accomplished nothing for the FOSS > community, because I simply couldn't find a functional equivalent that was > free all the way. After a while I just got tired of the research and bought > something

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/02/2017 07:25 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 02:05:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 02 January 2017 00:51:11 Jape Person wrote: On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: For a far less secure way than I do it. For a far less secure way than you do what? Scanning?

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 02:05:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2017 00:51:11 Jape Person wrote: > > > On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > For a far less secure way than I do it. > > > > For a far less secure way than you do what? Scanning? You're stating > >

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Monday 02 January 2017 00:51:11 Jape Person wrote: > On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 01 January 2017 20:31:00 Jape Person wrote: > >> On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > >>> I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian > >>> packages from the

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2017 20:31:00 Jape Person wrote: On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 02/01/17 13:38, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan functionality on

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Sunday 01 January 2017 20:31:00 Jape Person wrote: > On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian > > packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the > > scanner still isn't being found. > > > > Running Wheezy. >

Re: brother printer/scanners

On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan

Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages > from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner > still isn't being found. > > Running Wheezy. > > Would anyone care to tell me

Re: brother printer/scanners

Joel Rees composed on 2017-01-02 09:38 (UTC+0900): I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get

brother printer/scanners

I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan functionality on their Brother multifunction printers?