On Monday 13 Oct 2003 4:01 pm, diego wrote: > El lun, 13-10-2003 a las 12:36, Trevor Rhodes escribi�: > > Diego, > > > > > OK, I'll have a look at 1660. > > > > I just priced a 1660 here in Australia and they want around $400 for > > them. They have been superceded though by the 1670 which is useless for > > Linux so far. Oh well, back to the search.... > > Similar here. Almost disappeared in favour of 1670, and where available > at about 200� > > I think I'm going for 1260 photo...
�200 is about what I paid for the 2400 (�150). When I asked to swap the 1670 the man in the shop did not appear to be suprised that I had had problems with Linux. A few months ago Epson appeared to be Linux' friend. They even have an in-house Sane driver, but now no mention of a difficulty with Linux and the 1670 on that page or any other. In fact any mention of Linux on Epson's site is damn hard to find. I wonder... http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath :- ... "These programs clearly tighten Microsoft's already powerful control over the availabilty of products that support competing environments, especially the availability of hardware drivers. Even years ago, with much less leverage, they were able to force Epson to drop printer driver support for OS/2." ... [and how was that done, and why didn't we hear about it?] :- ... "In fact, nearly every Microsoft agreement or contract carries an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement), often to hide the extent to which extortion was applied. Facts hidden by the NDA may seep out many years later. The NDA required to get critical Microsoft programming assistance in the transition to Windows, for instance, included an extortion clause requiring software developers to drop all development of software for IBM's OS/2 operating system. By such means, superior products are driven from the market." ... -- Richard Urwin
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