A J Stiles wrote: > On Monday 03 Nov 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > It also appears to be proprietary software, so no way to fix that. > > > > I am a licensed user of the application and the author has been > > receptive to feedback previously. > > > > What would you suggest would be the most constructive way of > > *suggesting* to fix the problem.
I¹ have a running Vuescan on SuSE 10.3 (32bit and x86-64bit) under KDE. Maybe it must compiled for Gnome and other WM. I going to ask the author for a compiled x86-64bit binary and everybody should doing that too. ¹Not on my own machine. I hate proprietary software shit. If I want to buy hardware with free drivers and without BLOBs than I look to the OpenBSD people. The funny way: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html > Ask for the Source Code! After all, you're paying good money for the > software. Would you buy a cake without a list of ingredients on the > packaging? I agree with you. But Vuescan supports much high-end scanners and I think, the proprietary driver for that are the problem. This expensive scanners (several 1000 EUR or $) must have a standard API and/or free drivers. Ask the hardware manufacturer for the Source Code! Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in Redmond largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. Did I mention, continually ask the hardware manufacturers for the Source Code!? > Absence of Source Code does **nothing** to prevent unauthorised copying, > otherwise there wouldn't be so many pirate copies of Windows and Office out > there. For Windows and Office you can get cracked keys! Thats why the copies are able to run. A copy of Vuescan without a key places $$ watermarks on your saved scans. > You can no more expect a package originally compiled for Ubuntu > to run on Mandriva than you can expect a map of the route from > your kitchen to your bathroom to be valid in someone else's house. cp to sig ;-) Ciao Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
