If I'm not mistaken the original enquiry was regarding providing links to proprietary software in HowTo documents and the such.
To this I am in agreement with, I think it is better to indicate that there is a commercial product that can provide the functionality than saying that there is no opensource solution. This pushes people back to the Microsoft world and does nothing for the few commercial companies that are supporting Linux. For instance a large number of Canon printers can be made to work using software from Turboprint. http://www.turboprint.de/english.html Another example is OCR software where the offerings from opensource are pretty hopeless, it might be useful to let people know there is a commercial product that may be suitable (if you can afford it) like OCR Shop. http://www.vividata.com If in writing a Howto or a helpful hint I cannot see anything wrong in advising people of a commercial product as long as it is marked as such. -- Regards, Graham Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
