To, Dr. Olaf Meeuwissen, Dr. Yuri Chornoivan and The Team Sane-devel Info, [email protected]
Dear illustrious Team Members, especially Dr. Chormoivan and Dr. Meeuweissen, Thank you for upholding and promoting the greatest virtue among the most compassionate and empathetic human beings. FSF, Linux and Hurd are the best examples of this greatest virtue. I apologise for the delay in response. But I was just giving time for the matter to settle down enough for a clearer picture emerge before me. Not that Dr. Chornoivan wasn't clear enough. He couldn't have been clearer. So from your discussions it is clear that the manufacturer herself provides the driver software for her scanners. It is truly a positive sign. I suffered a lot for buying Canon's Duplex MFD earlier in 2016. With Sane Team's help I was able to create a specific driver for the scanner. But because of the poor business practices of these manufacturers, who sell printers at a low enough price only to recover the money through high-priced accessory sales, the product wasn't robust enough and made a demise quickly. Hopefully for me, Epson has never been a party to such practices. So I believe I won't be dejected this time. As Epson Scanner runs on Ubuntu, it shall surely run on Debian. I just have installed Debian 9.11.0 and Knoppix 8.2 on my systems. My humble regards, acknowledging your intent to help. Rajib (Rajib Bandopadhyay) A Debian and Knoppix user
